Bboid said:
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? |
AT&T might well have, they legally can do that, they just have to make sure the customers who are serviced in their landline phone area have some sort of highspeed network in the time alloted by the bill. congress at the moment seems like it will stand firm on this, with all of the investigations they are holding into cable, and dsl providers, with the network price hikes without rolling out or seriously upgrading network quality
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