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Re: Providers
Well, several twisted phone poles later... finally I got FIOS! Bellsouth and SBC really need to put out fiber to the home. This is the solution people will want in the future because of the potential hundreds of megabits of available bandwidth! What happens in 2-3 years when telcos put a more robust docis 2 or 3 in place... their big adsl+ will look like a tinker toy, spending nearly the same as verizon for the buildout and then having to retrain the staff to do fiber installs instead of dsl installs... ultimately will cost more money... Verizon can't do it all, its bad enough they hire non-union subcontracters to scewup the fiber deployment, it eventualy gets done...
I've read horror story blogs about the screwups in damaging public/private property while companies fall all over themselves to deploy broadband upgrades. I don't see much in the way of cablecos upgrading... probably because they have the most to lose in a bandwidth fight, right now.. (becuase they are CONTENT providers) but its about 20 years ago we were on 2400 buad modems! So, in another 20 years we'll have 240megabits?!?!? Its anybody's guess, | |
Fatal Vector
@aol.com
| Yes, I'm sure the union people are the only ones qualified to bury or sring fiber (not) and they dont have to deal with over paid, lazy workers and union corruption. Imagine. As far as damaging property and screwups, it happens all the time. I recently lost my phone for a day because a SBC contractor cut the trunk that had been buried there for 50 years after Miss Dig told them it was in a different place. It appears that neither union or independent workers have a monopoly on stupid screwups. The difference is that the unions in their unthinking arrogance dont give a damn. | |
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