Re: Great, but what he fails to mention..

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deadzoned Premium join:2005-04-13 Baton Rouge, LA ·Cox HSI	reply to Alpine Re: Great, but what he fails to mention.. said by Alpine : That I certainly won't disagree with. They've got a significant infrastructure disadvantage against the cable cos, pure and simple. That's why they're always playing catchup FIOS doesn't have that disadvantage, but even in utopia FIOS is going to take years to get a decent deployment and market share. This is the biggest reason I support the ATT/BellSouth merger. The two apart, especially BellSouth, are going to have a next-to-impossible time finding the resources to catch-up with cable. This is even more true when DOCSIS 3.0 finally rolls out. Adam Heh, the reason that they are feeling the pinch now is because the Tele-Co's have made a lot of silly decisions based on their current bottom lines rather than thinking of the future and spending money to make money like most successful businesses do. I have no sympathy for them and I also question whether or not the mergers will have any affect on the future if the do go through. I don't see how merging 2 major phone companies that individually have shown that they are not willing to make good decisions will form one gigantic phone company that will suddenly make all the right decisions and do all the right things. AT&T has their crappy U-Verse stop gap measure that they are trying to roll out in a limited fashion. Bellsouth has nothing that I can see that they are offering other than their normal DSL stuff. It's real easy to understand - if you want to be competitive at all in the cable tv market and offer triple play services you have to be willing to spend the money on the proper technology and not waste time, money, and resources on outdated technology that will have to be upgraded almost immediately after you start adding more than a few subscribers to the system. FTTC vs. FTTH... Heheh, I can't wait to see what they decide to do when they run out of bandwidth! Verizon is the only company on the Tele-Co side doing it the right way. It's sad really, as the answer is right there to see but the AT&T''s and Bellsouth's of the world refuse to acknowledge it and instead look towards a merger to save them. It's pretty odd thinking.
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