BosstonesOwn
join:2002-12-15
Everett, MA
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Re: What about??
said by cevans59  :What about those of us who can't even get regular DSL? I guess they will just bypass us again. What I find particularly hilarious is they think that it will do the job. By todays standards 24 mbit will do the job. for regular content and tv.
Fast forward 5 years when hdtv programs are more common and hdtv tv's are more widely spread and they have a serious problem. TV on demand is not going to take off like they assume. and streaming a channel in mid riff will cause some serious bandwidth issues when there is a popular show on.
They need to get their heads out of the sand and realize fiber is the future and if they want a piece of the tv pie they need to roll it out. Sure their vdsl may be good for data. But what happens when you start having multiple tv's run another pair to the home for another 24 mbit? The cost of the dslams alone and having to built remote terminals every 2500 feet because vdsl signal is easily degraded pushes their dreams on a fire. Not to mention compression tv looks like crap. Errr sorry I meant super compressed tv. What is next real player set top boxes ?
They expect to be the #2 tv provider in their area ? Ahh hate to say this but that is if they completely rely on that satellite feed. and then it won't be them who is the #2 it will be the provider they choose to carry the satellite signal.
And to keep on the rant  This is why the people running these companies are allowed to screw people for millions they don't understand what people want, they don't understand technology, they don't care about any future but their own, and they only want to give their investors a penny on their shares today. Not $10 in 2 years.
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flushls
join:2004-11-02
Joyce, WA
| It's time for that damn clown to follow up on your rant!
No the CryBaby bells don't really see the future, they are looking though the rose coloured glasses of their regulated past. This means they like many persons in former communist countries they really don't understand the free market.
The Cable Co's have all ready kicked the Sh*t out of them in the Urban markets leaving them only crumbs. The indies and the WISP's are really starting to braze their bologna out in the sticks. But they think that since they are the Bells they can do what they want ..... and we have to take it, however they are not in Kansas anymore.
Some one once said "entrepreneurship is more about destruction than creation." And I bet the next 2 years are going to show this in the BB telecomm bus. And then there will much wailing and nashing of teeth by both the employees of the Bells and the Stockholders.
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join:2001-06-11
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EXACTLY.
said by BosstonesOwn :
But what happens when you start having multiple tv's run another pair to the home for another 24 mbit?
Ding, ding, ding!
Look at it this way: A telco has a whole bunch of copper plant that may not be completely amortized. FTTPremises would throw all of that away, and start from scratch - hello, capital expenditures and rate increases. Copper-only solutions (all the way from the CO to the premises) would suck for obvious reasons. So, why not strike a balance between those two extremes, while utilizing the current copper plant to the fullest?
Not that I'm saying that's the right thing to do. That's just the mindset that these companies have. |
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