said by prestonlewis :

Comcast here in Sacramento used to be Sacramento Cable so I'm not sure if that is why I have excellent service and speeds (4200/384). No noticed outtages, everything seems perfect. SBC on the other hand is a horror with an old infrastructure, outtages due to water in the lines somewhere, and slow DSL because almost everyone is "too far from the CO".

We do have Roseville Telephone (Surewest now) laying fiber in SBC neighborhoods but alas, not in mine. I'd switch to Roseville Telephone in a heartbeat if they ever do lay fiber in my neighborhood. As for SBC, they expect to locate an RT in my nieghborhood in 2007 but that's a telco promise which is about as good as a snowball in you know where.

Telco promises in the last decade or two have largely been hot air. I'll believe widespread fiber implementation when I see it. They're already in debt from their mega mergers and laying fiber will cost billions but on the other hand, they'll go down like AT&T with the consumer market if they don't do anything. In the meantime, Comcast is offering local telephone service to me this year and I'll probably switch. At least where I live, Comcast is much superior to our telco, SBC.