roamer1
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join:2001-03-24
Atlanta, GA
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| Re: Finally! said by TKJunkMail  :Doing some checking I find that OEN has a deal with Houston fiber company Phonoscope which already is running past 250,000 residences. » www.4fiber.tv/OENAssets/pressRel···unch.pdf Phonoscope also claims they are within 500 meters of 1.6 million homes in the Houston area. If this news is accurate, OEN could expand relatively quickly. Phonoscope, huh? They used to provide TV directly to a lot of places (mostly apartments/condos) around Houston, then they sold their residential business (to OpTel, now known as TVMax) to focus on the commercial market, and now they're back in the residential cable business, as themselves (that's what accounts for the 250k homes passed figure.)
Houston is really a bit of an anomaly -- most cities don't have that sort of deep competitive fiber build. Atlanta certainly doesn't outside of the major business districts...in most residential areas and in the suburbs in general, the only fiber there is belongs to BellSouth and Comcast or Charter. 
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