said by N3OGH :

What ever came of the companies with grand visions that built this country into what it is today?

Guess they're all watching the next quarterly report..

said by ricep5 :

Only because institutional and individual investors demand they watch the quarterly earnings. If they demanded profits based on outstanding customer service and investment in new services....that is what makes companies great, a long term view.

said by bogey780 :

'What ever came of the companies with grand visions that built this country into what it is today?'

They grew too big and the public hacked them into pieces.

said by Mizzat :

They are a business...they exist to make money.

I guess, though, once you get big enough the public expects you to make strategic contributions back to them.

said by squid7 :

And who pays for this multi-gigabit deployement? Verizon is spending BILLIONS on FIOS and it won't provide the speeds Carlini is insisting is required for future proofing. He isn't talking about just major connections having gigabit speeds but residential gigabit service.

There is only so much information you can absorb...let's think about the future for a moment; a future of unlimited throughput. What services could possible consume that much capacity that some kid in a basement dreamt up.

This is not much different than the IP6 emergency when NAT has things more than covered. New technologies like what cable is doing with video switching continue to improve delivery efficiency and new compression techonogies continue to do the same.

While I can see a future need for 100Mb residential service, I can't imagine what would require 1000+Mb residential pipes.

said by squid7 :

While I can see a future need for 100Mb residential service, I can't imagine what would require 1000+Mb residential pipes.

said by bbenso1 :

Right. And no one will ever need more than 640K of memory either...

said by squid7 :

Verizon is spending BILLIONS on FIOS and it won't provide the speeds Carlini is insisting is required for future proofing. He isn't talking about just major connections having gigabit speeds but residential gigabit service.

said by squid7 :

There is only so much information you can absorb...let's think about the future for a moment; a future of unlimited throughput. What services could possible consume that much capacity?

While I can see a future need for 100Mb residential service, I can't imagine what would require 1000+Mb residential pipes.

said by squid7 :

While I can see a future need for 100Mb residential service, I can't imagine what would require 1000+Mb residential pipes.

said by Matt :

This is what makes absolutely no sense.

Look, we're not asking for anything to be given to us. We'd just like to have the choice of faster speeds for a reasonable price. Since the dawn of broadband most speeds have GONE DOWN and caps have been put in place. History tells us the cost per bit of wholesale access is going down.

So where does that leave us? In a "History repeating POTS" fiasco where the technology becomes CHEAPER to provide, but the cost to the consumer continues to RISE. And people wonder why no one trusts the phone company anymore.

Only one telco gets it, Verizon.

AT&T and Bellsouth are trying to hold on to a copper plant that has been in existence for almost 100 years.

said by bogey780 :

'AT&T and Bellsouth are trying to hold on to a copper plant that has been in existence for almost 100 years.'

Try and find a single copper anything that's more than 70 years old anywhere in America. The oldest you'll find is 1930s or so. Most copper plant is less than 30 years old. The stuff wears out and needs to be replaced. It's not as lucrative to run it as people think. Not to mention the gov't tries it's best to make it less profitable.

said by bogey780 :

'AT&T and Bellsouth are trying to hold on to a copper plant that has been in existence for almost 100 years.'

Try and find a single copper anything that's more than 70 years old anywhere in America. The oldest you'll find is 1930s or so. Most copper plant is less than 30 years old. The stuff wears out and needs to be replaced. It's not as lucrative to run it as people think. Not to mention the gov't tries it's best to make it less profitable.

said by patcat88 :

My house uses fabric phone cable for some extensions, built in 1930s, works fine.

said by qdemn7 :

I assume you mean fabric COVERED cable, right?

said by Mizzat :

They are a business...they exist to make money.

said by bogey780 :

The telcos, cable companies, anyone can run fiber right now. But people don't want to pay the cost of them doing so.

said by Mizzat :

They are a business...they exist to make money.

said by bmn :

And considering they have enough money to do phased deployments of fibre and the fact that fibre will give them even more profits with the services it can offer, short term thinking stupidity is the only thing holding them back.

said by Mizzat :

But they are deploying fiber in certain areas and phases, this article bitches because it isn't to every consumer household.

said by bmn :

Most ILECs aren't deploying to the home, a la ATT, Qwest and Bellsout. There ILECs could deploy to the home instead of using short life span, stop gap measures and start taking the MSOs on head to head.

said by Mizzat :

BellSouth did deploy fiber to areas in Florida and Georgia years before Verizon did so those that were not serviceable to regular DSL could get DSL speeds. I remember them digging up my front yard to do so and ording the service once they finished installing it. They deemed it too large of a loss and discontinued deployment, though.

said by tmc8080 :

Either build a robust network through and through or: GO OUT OF BUSINESS, get out of the way and let someone who is willing to build the network BUILD ALREADY!!!
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