Verizon is Willfully Driving DSL Users Into the Arms of Cable > What's the Problem?

reply to Smith6612

Re: What's the Problem?

Actually, there are still a great number of T1's that are on copper... ironically, some of those feeding cell sites. Anything T3 or higher though will be on fiber (unless there are actually some of those Verizon coax cables still in service!)

Smith's point is valid and actually goes far beyond copper since the fiber network is also considered 'landline' (which Verizon claims is dying). The same 'landline' techs Verizon has been screwing are the one that maintain the fiber network (most likely soon to be low quality contractors). The same cost-cutting methods implemented for copper are being applied to the fiber network (with equally damaging results).

It is fitting that with all their newly claimed 'business savvy', Verizon is too stupid to realize that their precious wireless network relies on the fiber they have been neglecting and the techs they claim are not necessary.

My point exactly. What is ironic is that many of the cell sites that use Fiber out here that have gotten hooked up recently use fiber circuits from the Cable company. Telco fiber is used where available but that's essentially fiber running between COs or to remote terminals with extra pairs. Yet, many of the towers where I am still feed off of T1s and they are always terrible. LTE comes and goes here, and it, too runs terrible (but faster) when there's a strong signal.

At work, much of the bandwidth we have coming in and out are from non-Telco sources. A good chunk of it is coming from the Cable co and the rest are coming from other Fiber providers in the area that are far less known but are awesome and actually own their own fiber. We've got Fiber from Verizon for Data and even Voice for the PBX but they kicked and screamed to run that fiber to the Datacenter (work) even when we offered to pay all of the cost associated with it. The other companies were all "Sure, no problem. Here's your line; it's lit".

I'm still wondering, in a transcript of the chat I saw regarding McAdam's comment on him not wanting people to use the LTE network while at home for service, especially with video. Consider per »www.phillipdampier.com/documents···_12.pdf: