dsless
join:2001-05-16
Pittsburgh, PA |  DSL will not Catch Cable
Verizon is not willing to make the capital investment needed to rewrire area beyound 18K. So no DSL. Don't even talk about fibre. I am luckly the my Verizon pots line works. Just took them 8 truck rolls to fix it between Jan and Feb. |
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ronpin
Imagine Reality
join:2002-12-06
Nirvana
 ·AT&T Southwest
| I'm looking at Verizon FTTP's rollout -- right here in Keller. I was cynical too about ANY telco doing FTTx -- but Verizon is really doing it -- they deserve our highest praise and admiration if they really turn-out to have that kind of vision and foresight. |
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dsless
join:2001-05-16
Pittsburgh, PA
| Great to see they are building there: But compare
»www.city-data.com/city/Keller-Texas.html
to
»www.city-data.com/city/Poca-West···nia.html
Actually we run out of the Nitro Switch exchange. No DSL coming to our house ever! The last tech that visited my house from verizon, his answer was yea, right. |
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Pseydtonne
Premium
join:2003-01-25
Melrose, MA
| reply to ronpin
Vz deserves praise?
That's only in one state. In Pennsylvania, where they promised FTTH by 2004 and didn't even try, there is no progress. Why praise them, for slacking and ripping off governments. "We failed on our rebuild so please give us more money." What, are they a dot-com?
You pay more for cable modem but it works. Believe it or not, and I know this will blow some of your minds here, but high-speed internet connectivity actually costs money. When ILECs lower their prices, they are only doing it to keep the POTS money. Be aware of this: they'll jack the rates again once they've snared enough folks.
However, I think all of this misses the best point about the article: broadband is growing dramatically in an otherwise shrunk economy. How can we translate this growth into growth of other businesses? How can this fuel a recovery? There's money out there somewhere...
-annoyed by ILEC flunkies, Ps/d |
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erin1
Premium
join:2002-02-22
Buford, GA | reply to dsless
Re: DSL will not Catch Cable
Keller-TEXAS
Nice!
White Non-Hispanic (90.7%)
WOW i wanna live there!
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