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Re: AT&T Struggling With Meter Accuracy Twenty three and a half billion... Did they spend this pocket change on FTTH? No?! Did they spend it on expanding U-verse? Not really?! Then what did they spend it on? Wireless?! Well that's fantastic, but it doesn't help the poor souls on ADSL 1.5 Mbps/384 kbps now, does it? |
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| said by Bugger :Twenty three and a half billion... Did they spend this pocket change on FTTH? No?! Did they spend it on expanding U-verse? Not really?! Then what did they spend it on? Wireless?! Well that's fantastic, but it doesn't help the poor souls on ADSL 1.5 Mbps/384 kbps now, does it?
It probably does. I can't think of a better way to roll out faster speeds to a sparse rural area than throwing up some wireless towers. |
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 NormanSPremium,MVM
join:2001-02-14
San Jose, CA
kudos:9 | reply to Bugger
said by Bugger :Twenty three and a half billion... Did they spend this pocket change on FTTH? No?! Did they spend it on expanding U-verse? Not really?! Then what did they spend it on?
I wonder? Did they spend it on AS7018, or AS7132? They own both, but only AS7132 is amenable to FTTH. AS7018 is probably already 100% fiber; but they might have decided they need more core capacity for AS7018 (or more edge capacity for customers, such as Blizzard), over any kind of "Last Mile" fiber for AS7132.
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Norman
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Well, assuming that T is deploying more towers and RAN capacity where these customers are, replacing expensive, slow and unreliable land-line data service with even more expensive, slow, and less reliable wireless data service is not a winning proposition. There are still different needs for both. And while T has been throwing billions at wireless: lobbying the FCC, buying spectrum, building the occasional tower, upgrading from AMPS to TDMA to GSM/GPRS to EDGE to UMTS to HSDPA+ these 12-year-old DSLAMs and modems have remained untouched. And since this is DSLreports.com, not WirelessGaffe.com I think this is very disconcerting. And now T slams the users with consumption caps, how rude! |
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