goddog said:
agree with the debate part, one of the tings i enjoy on these boards in particular.
I had thought verizons FIOS update was done, i know AT&T scrapped their update plan. AT&T though si who is pushing dsl, they have to legally due to a few bills passed in congress, i dont remember the deadline, but sometime in the next 5 years, anyone who can use AT&T has to be able to get dsl, or an equivelent if AT&T contracts it out. comcast and others, areslowing down, but they have issues with that too, here in tennessee, if they slow down they have to pay fines, due to the way loacl laws are written, knology faces this issue in our area, they have filed for several extentions. I expect govement intervention if things start really slowing down, normally im against such things, but comunications networks are of vital importance, and we as a country can not wait around for people to dick around. the IPV6 rollout is also slowing things down, but is nesisary
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yeah comcast has an extension here too due to the adelphia buyout from years ago. A family member worked for comcst for a year and he said you wouldn't believe how bad adelphia's network was maintain/controlled. In fact one of the major reasons for the broadband use increase in 2005 was adelphia's controleld market being opened up. In a county nearby, 70% of the county was hardwired by adelphia, however only towns/cities with localized populations of 1000 or more had their flow opened. Reason behind closed flows was maintenence costs vs profits. Comcast is opening all these constrained areas up now, but discovering huge issues in the network.
I know a lot of networks are also lobbying for waivers on fines since they are trying to upgrade to fiber. Locally verizon was successful in the waiver of dsl expnsion, but only if they hardwire the existing dsl network with fiber and all new subdivisions with fiber. It really is a mess and another fine example of too many medium to choose from.
Didn't AT&T sell part of their planned update areas/contract out to verizon recently?