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Langley

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Re: One at a time? Simply not enough....

Not everyone in the world is as addicted to TV as Americans (and especially some who post here). Some households have only (gasp!) ONE television! Hi-def isn't even on most people's radar here or abroad, despite the marketing hype.

AT&T's dumbass planning aside, Swisscom's VDSL offering does not suffer from the one-at-a-time malady you decry. Neither does AT&T's. Only 300,000 (13%) of the 2.3 million Swisscom homes passed are stuck on a limited ADSL circuit. The article for whatever reason doesn't bother to emphasize the 87% which have access to VDSL and are not so limited.

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Re: One at a time? Simply not enough....

said by Langley :

Not everyone in the world is as addicted to TV as Americans (and especially some who post here). Some households have only (gasp!) ONE television! Hi-def isn't even on most people's radar here or abroad, despite the marketing hype.
And at&t isn't trying to sell their IPTV service in these countries, or to these one tv households, so I fail to see how this really is relevant. I guess the point you're making is maybe the Swiss don't watch much TV, and only have one TV, so the Swisscom system works for them.

Well I suspect that even in Switzerland the system will be bandwidth strangled, and for at&t here, their blueprint is even more flawed. I'm currently an at&t DSL subscriber, and have one of their fastest packages, yet there's no way the could stream me HD without say building out FFTH.
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