The sad part is that AT&T would make tons more profit IF it upgraded those lines to fiber.. instead, they chose to drink the Verizon kool aid of 2012-2015 (About the time it was necessary to upgrade from hundreds of megabits to gigabits or beyond) that said wireless and/or fixed wireless was THE solution, and in Verizon's own recent PAID studies as cellular wireless flat-lined as peak in profitability for at least 2 years that fiber broadband is what consumers want alongside cellular even over VIDEO SUBSCRIPTIONS, whether that be traditional cable OR STREAMING SERVICES!!
this is much like CNN trying to "LOOK" unbiased when doing that fact checking during the presidential conventions. Remember when reporters collected facts and provided just that information without the BS commentary?! A program subsidizing low income consumers resulted in many consumers not having access depending on whether the internet service providers provided a comparable service without the subsidy. See, takes less than a paragraph. The sad part is you can't sell ads based on a one paragraph reporting of the facts or lure people here with click bait...
I think Cruz should focus on the Florida Insurance market rather than hurting poor people.. I can't wait to see Cruz kiss the ring the next time he goes looking for that FEDERAL DISASTER MONEY... eventually you reap the unkindness you sow! Lets see how many people move to Florida for anything, including broadband in the next 10 years when they see how bad it will be once you get there and your government doesn't want to pay for NOTHING!
25+ years after Telco Verizon and later on Cablevision/Altice deployed fiber on Long Island, NY.. there are STILL communities left behind with plain old rj11 copper wires for phone/dsl and coax based cable broadband which can't get gigabit speeds!! Also the prices and terms of services in these communities is nothing other than PREDATORY PRICING!!! Nobody seems to care to do anything about it...
The router's need to be made-- if you create a market for it.. fiber (40 - 100gig throughput) using wifi 7 or 6e along with 10 gigabit Ethernet ports using cat 7 or 8 cabling will suffice. Time for companies like VERIZON to get off their ass and move beyond 2 gigabit! The number of companies moving beyond 2 gigabit is piling up while the silence from Verizon speaks volumes. Wifi 6e can go 5.4 gigabit and multiple Ethernet runs can collectively saturate 20 gigabit. BTW, most people buy internet service based upon what the collective of devices can use-- not just ONE device. Let's assume a minimum of 4 to 5 devices pulling (or pushing) about 5 gigabits each potentially AT THE SAME TIME. Of course I understand that parts of the internet will saturate much lower based on where data goes, or the hops between countries, etc-- so NO you will not get 20 gig to every destination... it was unreasonable when 10 megabit connections hit the internet and now when 20gigabit does. This kind of speed when you can hit those levels gets into SSD level reads/writes and would be obsolete for HDD use outside of raid array as a source for data transmitted.
Also, cart before the horse, make at multi gigabit (2+) connections affordable too (under $50)! 20 is for consumers with money to burn AND a niche use (as it would cost $200+/month along with tech/wiring upgrades potentially). Hey, I'll take it for $50 a month too, if were on offer, lol but not reality yet.
I don't see CONED running fiber to serve consumers with broadband... and they own loads of the rights of way including the poles. NY metro could use a boost in competition.
Yes, broadband companies-- telco, calbeco and even google have languished in not ramping up deployment when they had a huge opportunity to do so on the CHEAP with low interest rates, labor costs that weren't our current inflationary era.. now they have the perfect excuses to truck out when they have to conveniently RAI$E rates in 2022 and beyond! Add to that the fleecing in geographies with only ONLY dominant broadband provider and another who just "GAVE UP" deploying their network!! Interesting how the dominant company is still charging 2 - 10x the price of geographies that have 2 fiber and/or gigabit+ docsis competitors to the same customer.
I hope more towns and cities throw Verizon out on their ass for not deploying FIOS! Once its gone, it's gone.. Don't think Verizon can come back in, corner the market and then jack up rates! Once a municipality has to build it themselves.. that market is more or less LOCKED down, unless google wanted to deploy there too.. but in all likelihood, if the customers aren't getting ripjacked like $300 for 500/500 internet currently advertised by Verizon.. they're WAY ahead of the game for YEARS to come!!!
TDS should move itself up to Boston, MA... apparently Verizon doesn't want the millions of potential customers and wants to leech off the copper network at the same or higher prices that FIOS customers pay for next generation services. The precondition for Verizon to compete in their most competitive region (NY Metro) was that no other company can do line sharing the way it was on DSL. Fine, they got their concession, but in return what did consumers get? They got higher prices and anti-competitive moves and lack of innovation. Cherry picking and deployment commitments full of loopholes in exchange for video franchises. The time is now for these smaller carriers to cherry pick the best of what Verizon is casting off to the likes of fairpoint which WILL FILE BANKRUPTCY very soon and wipe billions of Verizon debt from it's books. Then once the best of MA is cherry picked, move onto Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Vermont, New Hampshire, Washington DC, etc.
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The sad part is that AT&T would make tons more profit IF it upgraded those lines to fiber.. instead, they chose to drink the Verizon kool aid of 2012-2015 (About the time it was necessary to upgrade from hundreds of megabits to gigabits or beyond) that said wireless and/or fixed wireless was THE solution, and in Verizon's own recent PAID studies as cellular wireless flat-lined as peak in profitability for at least 2 years that fiber broadband is what consumers want alongside cellular even over VIDEO SUBSCRIPTIONS, whether that be traditional cable OR STREAMING SERVICES!!
good luck pretzels~
this is much like CNN trying to "LOOK" unbiased when doing that fact checking during the presidential conventions. Remember when reporters collected facts and provided just that information without the BS commentary?! A program subsidizing low income consumers resulted in many consumers not having access depending on whether the internet service providers provided a comparable service without the subsidy. See, takes less than a paragraph. The sad part is you can't sell ads based on a one paragraph reporting of the facts or lure people here with click bait...
NothingFreeinFL
I think Cruz should focus on the Florida Insurance market rather than hurting poor people.. I can't wait to see Cruz kiss the ring the next time he goes looking for that FEDERAL DISASTER MONEY... eventually you reap the unkindness you sow! Lets see how many people move to Florida for anything, including broadband in the next 10 years when they see how bad it will be once you get there and your government doesn't want to pay for NOTHING!
Long Island
... AND if Verizon and Altice can't finish long island after 20+ years, bring fiber community broadband here too!!
fixredliningONLongIslandNOW!!
25+ years after Telco Verizon and later on Cablevision/Altice deployed fiber on Long Island, NY.. there are STILL communities left behind with plain old rj11 copper wires for phone/dsl and coax based cable broadband which can't get gigabit speeds!! Also the prices and terms of services in these communities is nothing other than PREDATORY PRICING!!! Nobody seems to care to do anything about it...
Fiber to the router, primary PC, wifi everywhere else...
The router's need to be made-- if you create a market for it.. fiber (40 - 100gig throughput) using wifi 7 or 6e along with 10 gigabit Ethernet ports using cat 7 or 8 cabling will suffice. Time for companies like VERIZON to get off their ass and move beyond 2 gigabit! The number of companies moving beyond 2 gigabit is piling up while the silence from Verizon speaks volumes. Wifi 6e can go 5.4 gigabit and multiple Ethernet runs can collectively saturate 20 gigabit. BTW, most people buy internet service based upon what the collective of devices can use-- not just ONE device. Let's assume a minimum of 4 to 5 devices pulling (or pushing) about 5 gigabits each potentially AT THE SAME TIME. Of course I understand that parts of the internet will saturate much lower based on where data goes, or the hops between countries, etc-- so NO you will not get 20 gig to every destination... it was unreasonable when 10 megabit connections hit the internet and now when 20gigabit does. This kind of speed when you can hit those levels gets into SSD level reads/writes and would be obsolete for HDD use outside of raid array as a source for data transmitted. Also, cart before the horse, make at multi gigabit (2+) connections affordable too (under $50)! 20 is for consumers with money to burn AND a niche use (as it would cost $200+/month along with tech/wiring upgrades potentially). Hey, I'll take it for $50 a month too, if were on offer, lol but not reality yet.
ConEd Fiber?
I don't see CONED running fiber to serve consumers with broadband... and they own loads of the rights of way including the poles. NY metro could use a boost in competition.
fleecing
Yes, broadband companies-- telco, calbeco and even google have languished in not ramping up deployment when they had a huge opportunity to do so on the CHEAP with low interest rates, labor costs that weren't our current inflationary era.. now they have the perfect excuses to truck out when they have to conveniently RAI$E rates in 2022 and beyond! Add to that the fleecing in geographies with only ONLY dominant broadband provider and another who just "GAVE UP" deploying their network!! Interesting how the dominant company is still charging 2 - 10x the price of geographies that have 2 fiber and/or gigabit+ docsis competitors to the same customer.
wildfire
I hope more towns and cities throw Verizon out on their ass for not deploying FIOS! Once its gone, it's gone.. Don't think Verizon can come back in, corner the market and then jack up rates! Once a municipality has to build it themselves.. that market is more or less LOCKED down, unless google wanted to deploy there too.. but in all likelihood, if the customers aren't getting ripjacked like $300 for 500/500 internet currently advertised by Verizon.. they're WAY ahead of the game for YEARS to come!!!
So, hope it catches on like wildfire!
This guy
This guy is also making the rounds exposing the lies told by the old media industry in their 10+ years long battle against new media and the internet.
google mike mozart & sopa
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJIuYgIvKsc
TDS should move itself up to Boston, MA... apparently Verizon doesn't want the millions of potential customers and wants to leech off the copper network at the same or higher prices that FIOS customers pay for next generation services. The precondition for Verizon to compete in their most competitive region (NY Metro) was that no other company can do line sharing the way it was on DSL. Fine, they got their concession, but in return what did consumers get? They got higher prices and anti-competitive moves and lack of innovation. Cherry picking and deployment commitments full of loopholes in exchange for video franchises. The time is now for these smaller carriers to cherry pick the best of what Verizon is casting off to the likes of fairpoint which WILL FILE BANKRUPTCY very soon and wipe billions of Verizon debt from it's books. Then once the best of MA is cherry picked, move onto Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Vermont, New Hampshire, Washington DC, etc.