etaadmin
join:2002-01-17
Dallas, TX
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1 edit | Do what Verizon did... Make a deal with the cable companies and offer triple play services to cable customers.
Verizon saw the writing on the wall but at&t didn't »www.lightreading.com/document.as···r_cable& Now verizon can directly compete with at&t in markets were they offer uverse.
In markers where Verizon can't offer more than adsl speeds (more than 90% of its footprint) they can sell cable docsis3.0 via their partners and Verizon's partners can sell wireless products to their subscribers.
AT&T is stuck between a hard place and a rock, nobody wants to buy their dying dead landline business and they can't offer competitive products. AT&T will loose by loosing those those neglected subscribers and they will loose by loosing those subscribers' wireless business too.
People using old at&t products should switch to cable now (if they have the option) and put an end to their pain.
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AT&T would rely on new copper-line technology to offer faster broadband in areas without access to AT&T’s U-verse fiber-optic network
Who are they kidding? Uverse fiber-optic network? There is no such thing as a uverse fiber-optic network... it is COPPER to the home! | |
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 Sammer
join:2005-12-22
Canonsburg, PA | Re: Do what Verizon did... said by etaadmin:Make a deal with the cable companies and offer triple play services to cable customers.
Collusion as a business model may be good for Verizon but it will never be good for consumers. | |
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 | etaadmin
join:2002-01-17
Dallas, TX
kudos:1 | Re: Do what Verizon did... said by Sammer:said by etaadmin:Make a deal with the cable companies and offer triple play services to cable customers.
Collusion as a business model may be good for Verizon but it will never be good for consumers. Under the current conditions neglected at&t subscribers are not doing very good either. | |
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| | Greenfield areas are FTTH, so your wrong as well, however they have stupidly mirrored the service oferings as those on FTTN, possibly due to backhaul to the CO that the FTTN shares cant handle higher FTTH tiers. | |
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| etaadmin
join:2002-01-17
Dallas, TX
kudos:1 | Re: Do what Verizon did... said by OSUGoose:Greenfield areas are FTTH, so your wrong as well, however they have stupidly mirrored the service oferings as those on FTTN, possibly due to backhaul to the CO that the FTTN shares cant handle higher FTTH tiers.
Some 'greenfield' areas are FTTH if there are any 'greenfield' areas left to build on. | |
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| | | | Re: Do what Verizon did... Wrong ALL new builds are FTTH, this is straight from several techs and managers of AT&T Ohio. | |
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join:2005-12-22
Canonsburg, PA | Re: Do what Verizon did... said by OSUGoose:Wrong ALL new builds are FTTH, this is straight from several techs and managers of AT&T Ohio.
Copper doesn't make sense for new builds unless it's at least Cat 5e. Even Cat 5e is considered obsolete by some (and priced accordingly) so where does that leave Cat 3 equivalent telephone lines. | |
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| | | | | Not all. New builds in Toledo area (200,000$+ homes) are on U-Verse FTTN. | |
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| | NOT all U-Verse is FTTN. Carlton Michigan is an SBC region FTTH network. It was part of Project Lightspeed under SBC's brand. Still there and still expanding. They rebuilt that network out. Which means- NO 3rd party ISPs, phone companies, etc. | |
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