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| reply to djrobx
Re: re:article
I think it may actually happen this time, and the reason is simple: Cable has a lucrative TV income supporting it, and is jumping into things like VOIP and providing telephone service. In other words, Cable TV companies are encroaching into the ILEC's business, but they can't encroach into Cable's TV service because they don't have the infrastructure....
Meanwhile, Wireless is also migrating people away from POTS lines and other traditionally Telco supplied services.
In other words, if the Telco's don't get off their butts and get moving, they may find themselves being squeezed out of existance in the future (Assuming they can't convince politicians to force everyone to have mandatory POTS service or something).
There is profit to be made in TV, HDTV, Video-On-Demand services. It's profitable now... so I think the incentive is really there for SBC to finally deliver the "FAT PIPE" that can carry all manner of services to the home.
If SBC has realized this, I think they can do this far faster then people would think. It's always been about the Will... not the way. They haven't really had the will... if they do now... it will happen.
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| reply to DSL_Steve
Yes, that's a great idea. Let's halt all progress nationwide until they get your 150kbps back.  There's over 290,000,000 people in the US (source), one would think we could accomplish just a few tasks simultaneously, no?
A lot of the problems people have with availability, reliability and speed will disappear if SBC deploys fiber.
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DSL_Steve
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Woodbury, CT | reply to ObdH
Before we get carried away with expansion, lets fix the problems we already have.
»[anyone else ?] Where did 150k of my bandwidth go? | |
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