MarkyD
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Oklahoma City, OK
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Re: [VA] Cox Nova To Dramatically Boost Internet S
There you have it folks. Straight from the horse's mouth.
I called it, didn't I? I said that Cox would cherry pick, just like Verizon...and I was right on the money. |
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NerdOne
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Topeka, KS
1 edit | I have a question. What about the rest of Cox's serviceable areas? Are the rest of us going to see any upgrades on the premier and preferred tiers in June 2005? The premier tier at 15Mbps down and 2Mbps up for $55 per month looks sweet than 5/768. Even 5Mbps down and 2Mbps up looks sweet at $40 per month and better than 4/512. But I bet living in a non Verizon area like SBC, we aren't going to see anything for a while. Cox probably will have to lower the prices for their high speed Internet services in rest of their areas, or do something to keep subscribers since it's not even right that NOVA is going to see speed upgrades, and the rest of us aren't going to see much of anything in June 2005. Just very curious.
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Hank
Its all relative
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join:2002-05-21
Burlington, WV | reply to MarkyD
I don't think Cox is Cherry Picking at all. They are just countering Verizon's FIOS. Is anything like FIOS soon to be released in the Oklahoma City area? |
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MarkyD
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Oklahoma City, OK
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 ·Cox HSI
| said by Hank  :I don't think Cox is Cherry Picking at all. They are just countering Verizon's FIOS. Is anything like FIOS soon to be released in the Oklahoma City area? No. I am not complaining, just making a point. I am not going to whine because it does no good. I am happy for you folks in Va, I really am. |
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catseyenu
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Fix East
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said by MarkyD :There you have it folks. Straight from the horse's mouth. quote:
“We recognize that consumers in Northern Virginia have a choice in Internet providers,”
There it is, in black and white.
Trying not to go into whine mode.
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runciter
join:2000-07-22
Centreville, VA
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I called it, didn't I? I said that Cox would cherry pick, just like Verizon...and I was right on the money. Not to nitpick, but when you call the over and the under, it is easy to get it right! :)
Your quote from page 3 of the initial post:
Don't get angry. Don't wet your pants yet. Let's wait to hear what the Cox reps have to say. I'd be amazed if Cox's system, as is, without any field upgrades, could support such speeds. I'm not seeing how they could.
In any event, it was a wise strategic business decision by Cox to count FIOS. Personally I was going to switch to VZ for FIOS and move my switched phone service to them, but instead stayed with Cox and added their switched phone service. After all those years of crappy service in NoVA, it finally pays off! 
Having said that... VZ is still cheaper... I got a flyer from VZ advertising their FIOS rates as 5/2: $34.95* and 15/2: $44.95*
* with qualifying VZ calling package (not sure what "qualifies") |
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MarkyD
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·Cox HSI
| said by runciter :Your quote from page 3 of the initial post: Don't get angry. Don't wet your pants yet. Let's wait to hear what the Cox reps have to say. I'd be amazed if Cox's system, as is, without any field upgrades, could support such speeds. I'm not seeing how they could. Indeed, I said that. I was referring to the ENTIRE COX SYSTEM AS A WHOLE. After that, I later came out with information that I had "gathered" from a source:
»Re: [VA] *** SPEED INCREASES IN THE VERY NEAR FUTURE ***
said by MarkyD :I have it from a VERY reliable source that these "rumors" are true. I am not going to give any further details, but I can confirm that in the NoVA area, Cox is indeed preparing to bump speeds. They are currently working on some final infrastructure upgrades, and the speeds should be going up fairly soon. On another note, it is not expected that Cox will be doing this upgrade across the board, in all areas. It is expected that, for now, it will only happen in the areas where there is an imminent threat, i.e. FiOS. |
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Derch
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Tulsa, OK | reply to Hank
I don't think SBC has any FIOS plans in the near future. I know that they pretty much cornered the DSL market in the Tulsa area about a certain area. And the only real competition SBC has is Cox. |
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MarkyD
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·Cox HSI
| said by Derch :I don't think SBC has any FIOS plans in the near future. I know that they pretty much cornered the DSL market in the Tulsa area about a certain area. And the only real competition SBC has is Cox. SBC's plans are limited to "Project Lightspeed," which is Fiber to the Node much like what Cox has. (except the glaring differences between HFC cable systems and ADSL2+ systems.)
SBC, however, IS planning on doing fiber to the home on NEW builds. |
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