nasadude
join:2001-10-05
Rockville, MD | i've got a better idea
Lease the old copper back!
They should give it back to the public domain (which paid for it in the first place) and let other companies use it and pay for the maintenance. |
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mishaq
Premium
join:2004-01-24
Richardson, TX
clubs:
1 edit | Not as simple as it sounds. Maintaining copper is the most expensive thing the telcos have to do, it takes a significant amount of money and man power. In fact, once their entire network is all fiber they will be very happy because its is much easier to have fiber than thousands and thousands and thousands of pairs of aging copper that you have to supply electricity to, and splice and switch etc. |
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SteveCon
IBEW 2222 Boston, MA
Premium
join:2004-09-02
Burlington, MA
 ·Verizon FIOS
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If the copper plant were "given to the public domain" then those "competitive rates" charged by CLECs would disappear! The CLECs couldn't afford to maintain the plant and compete with the ILECs. They might do it at the large biz customer level, but not at the residential level as the residential market is the most costly to serve. The result would be expensive telephony services that would become more and more unstable. Does this really serve anyone?? Besides, if fiber went by your home - would you want DSL as we know it (over copper)? |
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gene32
join:2004-05-03
Reynoldsburg, OH
 ·ViaTalk
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said by mishaq  :
Not as simple as it sounds. Maintaining copper is the most expensive thing the telcos have to do, it takes a significant amount of money and man power. In fact, once their entire network is all fiber they will be very happy because its is much easier to have fiber than thousands and thousands and thousands of pairs of aging copper that you have to supply electricity to, and splice and switch etc.
So I guess this means that once telco's lay fiber everywhere, everyone can expect cheaper internet/telephone service over those glass lines? HA, yeah right!
Just like when the RIAA was producing tapes at a cost of $2? $1.50? and selling them for $15 and CDs come along and cost about $0.03 to produce yet the savings were sucked up by greedy snakes instead of selling us CDs for $5-$8. Their excuse was "higher advertising budget, etc etc etc". I can't wait to see the BS excuses telcos come up with to justify paying the same....er, MORE for cheaper fiber (vs copper) and lower line maint. |
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BosstonesOwn
join:2002-12-15
Everett, MA
clubs: | But faster speeds for the same price I will take easily any day. |
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