said by nasadude 
: said by soothsayer15 : The Telco's aren't doing this because they like empty promises. FTTP is a must for their survival.
If that's true, why do they need deregulation to do it? Are you saying the bells would rather wither and die than not get their monopoly on fiber?
I have absolutely no sympathy for any of the ILECs. They should have been doing this a couple of years ago, before they were getting their lunch eaten by cable and VOIP. That's not the way would be monopolies play though. Instead of innovating and leading in technology, they spend their money on lobbying and FUD; how many fiber connections could have been laid with the ILEC lobbying budget? If the FCC hadn't given in the the bells lobbying, I guarantee you fiber would have been deployed, deregulation or not.
The ILECs only held out this long because they were sure they could buy (thru lobbying) the deregulation they sought.
