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Re: Verizon Again Tweaks DSL Bundles
The systems don't work that way.
The way Verizon would likely deploy a FTTN system would be to install multiple RT's and serve the adjacent areas with DSL. You're looking in the neighborhood of at least $15,000 to install a remote terminal. To deliver 7 MBS service to an entire area would cost a fortune. Perhaps almost as much as installing FiOS instead.
The fiber run to the RT would not be usable as part of the Fios network installed in an area served by a given central office. Besides, the bulk of cost associated with a RT is the vault, mini DSLAM, etc.
Upon upgrading a given CO to FiOS, all those RT's become legacy equipment.
I really don't see how Verizon could ever recover the costs associated with deploying FTTN this way. I can't think of any other way they would do it.
In areas that FiOS hasn't reached yet, Verizon is going to lag. There's just no other way around it.
The FTTN solution costs a truck load of money, and is for lack of a better term, a half assed solution. Better to sink your working capital into the real deal and getting as many TV subs on board as possible.
Make no mistake about it, FiOS isn't really about fast internet, at least not for Verizon. It's simply a juicy by product of that fiber optic goodness that lets Verizon sell people TV.
FiOS is all about the boob tube for Verizon. That's where the real cheesecake is...
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