said by elbm :

Great, now my cell phone can go down too when the power goes out?

Cable companies cannot provide the near 100% up-time that the telcos provide to the cellular networks.

said by JSRoman :

I thought is was written in stone that cable had no fiber and that Verizon and ATT were going to put cable out of business. What is all this about cable having fiber all thru residential areas? Boy you learn something new all the time.

said by HyPeRbAnD :

First off I am not speaking of Comcast, just because my user account is under comcast doesn't mean I work for them.

Second the towers I am speaking about do have fiber to all of them and the towers are in the system in which I work.

I could not possibly no if every tower in Massachusetts has fiber, but I can only speak for the ones I work on. I also know for a fact that we do lease to ATT and other cell companies tower space.

The company in my area may lease fibers from electric light, we also use level 3 and we have our own fiber ring. We also have comcast on our fiber as we are on their fibers.

Bottom line is I am saying where we lease tower space we could tie them into our fiber network. I did not mention comcast in my first post at all! So for you to assume that is very ignorant.

said by compuwizz :

In the Tysons Corner area of Northern Virginia Cox provides backhaul service to Verizon and currently bringing service to Cingular. With phones getting faster data service the old T1s going to the towers won't allow for future speed increases. Cox puts the cell providers on either a PVC or a dark fiber depending on resources.