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join:2000-11-25
Phoenix, AZ
 ·DIRECTV
 ·BBTelSys VOIP
| Qwest Is To Late I live in the Phoenix area and already getting 12/1 with cox. I think Qwest is to late to start thinking about this move. Cox has already captured the majority of the market here already. On the other hand if Verizon were to buy Qwest out and deploy FIOS here..Cox is doomed! | |
|  | | | | | | dynodb
Premium,VIP
join:2004-04-21
Minneapolis, MN
| Re: Qwest Is To Late Cox has taken significant business from Qwest in Phoenix, but Qwest still does pretty well there. Cox cable is significantly more expensive with only 512k upstream speed- as with pretty much everywhere else DSL competes on price instead of speed. If you're willing to make a 2 year commitment, Qwest's 7M/1M (or 7M/896k) service is still $8 cheaper than Cox's 7M/512k.
Yes, Cox has 12M/1M, but at $60 a month. The average user who just surfs the web, uses e-mail and downloads the occasional picture really has little need for 12M. Most users aren't as speed-obssesed as the majority on this forum, and will often opt for a 1.5M connection that costs half as much. | |
| RayW
Premium
join:2001-09-01
Layton, UT
clubs:
 ·XMission
| UTOPIA and others are a good reason Although here on the Wasatch front in Utah, Qwest wins with or without UTOPIA since they paid for a law that says UTOPIA can only provide the line, other people (like Qwest) have to provide the actual service. Qwest actually wanted to ban UTOPIA altogether, but I understand (not known as a fact) they could/would not pay enough to make the politicians risk the people's furor.
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Go ahead, make my day
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join:2002-03-03
Margate City, NJ
clubs:
 ·Comcast
| Re: UTOPIA and others are a good reason said by RayW  :Although here on the Wasatch front in Utah, Qwest wins with or without UTOPIA since they paid for a law that says UTOPIA can only provide the line, other people (like Qwest) have to provide the actual service. Qwest actually wanted to ban UTOPIA altogether, but I understand (not known as a fact) they could/would not pay enough to make the politicians risk the people's furor. You are posting in the wrong thread. The Utopia thread is here:
»Re: What a joke, again.
where you already posted this comment.
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| | | RayW
Premium
join:2001-09-01
Layton, UT
clubs: | Re: UTOPIA and others are a good reason Not really, they are all tied together. | |
| | | | robertfl
Premium
join:2005-10-10
Mary Esther, FL
·Cox VOIP
·Cox HSI
| Re: UTOPIA and others are a good reason I would like to see Quest buy out Embarq...There just as horrible as Sprint DSL was. Here in Florida, Cox is the best choice here.
I wonder when the other telcos will be offering high speed internet, television over the lines (not satellite) like FIOS is?
Rob | |
| | | | | RayW
Premium
join:2001-09-01
Layton, UT
clubs:
·XMission
| Re: UTOPIA and others are a good reason Can't say, I do not know what is going on the East Coast. maybe your area can get something like our UTOPIA and IProvo initiatives going out there, assuming they have not already bought the laws to prevent that from happening. That will get the corporations moving.
But beware, it is easy for the corporates to buy a law that makes it hard for a true people's/muni system to work, let the people do the work and the corporates are there to skin the gravy. And then to piously say, "We told you it would not work".
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| | | | | | | | | | dynodb
Premium,VIP
join:2004-04-21
Minneapolis, MN | Florida is outside Qwest's 14 state territory. Not likely to happen. | |
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Blasterbator
Sent By Grocery Clerks
join:2001-02-20
Jackson, MS
·Cox HSI
| Qwest and RFP's If Qwest acted on even half the RFP's they've issued since buying US West, they'd have a nationwide FTTH network deployed to every household with every piece of content ever created available, on-demand in HD 
Verizon needs get it over with already and buy Qwest. | |
| | JerryTongue
join:2003-04-01
Auburn, WA
·Comcast
| Re: Qwest and RFP's In our neck of the woods (Auburn WA) we are either Comcast or Qwest dialup, anything Qwest does if they stick around would open up other options for us. As it stands all I have is Comcast which gives them the power to do as they like with us. I am 8/768 and we watch them give people on the EastCoast 16/1 with a soon to be upgrade to 16/2 for the same price all for the simple reason...Verison Fios. if we dont like it here who do we have to turn to? I dont care who buys Qwest if anyone does I would just like to see some real things happen here. Seattle is also a big major city but seen as a small nothing little city why up in some little corner of nowhere. I have no issues of paying for what I get or use, I would just like to be seen as equal | |
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