Matt
Running Free
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join:2003-07-20
Jamestown, NC |  All greenfield's should be FTTH
All greenfield deployments should be FTTH. Any company not running FTTH is shooting themselves in the foot and has absolutely no excuse for it. |
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espaeth
Misanthrope
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join:2001-04-21
Minneapolis, MN
 ·voip.ms
·Callcentric
·VoiceStick
·ViaTalk
 ·Comcast
 ·Embarq
| said by Matt  :All greenfield deployments should be FTTH. Any company not running FTTH is shooting themselves in the foot and has absolutely no excuse for it. There's plenty of excuses not to do it. Spare parts, tech training, call center support documentation, new field toolkits, new video distribution mechanisms, different customer set top boxes, etc.
No doubt they need to move in that direction (and I'm not arguing that they shouldn't), but it's not as easy as sitting down and saying "we should roll fiber now". |
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Matt
Running Free
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join:2003-07-20
Jamestown, NC
·North State Commun..
 ·Corporate Colocation
| said by espaeth :said by Matt :All greenfield deployments should be FTTH. Any company not running FTTH is shooting themselves in the foot and has absolutely no excuse for it. There's plenty of excuses not to do it. Spare parts, tech training, call center support documentation, new field toolkits, new video distribution mechanisms, different customer set top boxes, etc. No doubt they need to move in that direction (and I'm not arguing that they shouldn't), but it's not as easy as sitting down and saying "we should roll fiber now". Really? My ILEC did it ... Verizon did it ... why can't the big boys? |
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hottboiinnc
Kyle
join:2003-10-15
Toledo, OH
·buckeye cable
| Verizon is doing an actual "new" build. They're replacing a system with a new one but only when the customer changes over to the new system. They're not having two differenet set-top boxes as far as programming. Also VZW had to put in a new call center to handle FiOS many cable companies do not want to pay for that extra item right now let alone to rebuild an entire network that they just got done doing maybe 7 years ago. VZ had no option but to upgrade to Fiber since they are still using a system that is from the 80s and before. |
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