tmc8080
join:2004-04-24
Floral Park, NY | fiber to the $$ bank $$...
Well if Verizon isn't above putting a premium on it's FTTH pricing plans, why should TWC?
On the other hand, they both screw the consumer in terms of real value/true competition.. they both could do much, much, much (infinity X) better.. |
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hottboiinnc
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join:2003-10-15
Cleveland, OH | very true. But he should at least give the two credit for deploying FTTH. You don't see AT$T doing much of it or even Qwest. WOW! and Bright House are far from FTTH. |
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JPL
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join:2007-04-04
West Chester, PA
 ·Verizon FIOS
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said by tmc8080  :Well if Verizon isn't above putting a premium on it's FTTH pricing plans, why should TWC? Huh? FiOS is FTTP for EVERYONE, not just for people in specific markets. |
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hottboiinnc
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join:2003-10-15
Cleveland, OH | it maybe in select markets as VZ has been talking about doing FTTN in select areas. Why create 2 brand names? just create 1 and make them use to different technologies. |
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dvd536
as Mr. Pink as they come
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join:2001-04-27
Phoenix, AZ
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said by JPL :said by tmc8080 :Well if Verizon isn't above putting a premium on it's FTTH pricing plans, why should TWC? Huh? FiOS is FTTP for EVERYONE, not just for people in specific markets. Wheres my fios then if its for everyone?
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JPL
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West Chester, PA
·Verizon FIOS
1 edit | said by dvd536 :said by JPL :said by tmc8080 :Well if Verizon isn't above putting a premium on it's FTTH pricing plans, why should TWC? Huh? FiOS is FTTP for EVERYONE, not just for people in specific markets. Wheres my fios then if its for everyone? Very cute, but you're misrepresenting my point. NO system is available to everyone. But for areas where FiOS IS available, they don't have different types of delivery mechanisms. They don't reserve FTTH just for their uber-rich customers. I was countering the point that Verizon is like TWC in that they put a 'premium' on FTTH. They don't. Granted, they won't go into areas where it's not feasible for them to do so, but guess what? There are ares around here (and I live pretty darn close to Philly) where Comcast won't run their cable because it's not economically feasible for them to do so (neighborhoods where the houses are 'too' far apart - heck, on the street where my in-laws live, they had to PAY the cable company at the time to run the line up their street - not just to their house, but to actually just run the line up their street).
That to me is valid. If you don't think you can recoup your investment (cost) for setting someone up, then it makes sense not to hook them up. But what TWC is doing is dfferent. They're reserving their better technology for the uber-rich. Verizon does NOT do that. Everyone who can get fios gets FTTH. Period. |
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