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Verizon never gets enough credit for their fiber roll out. Sure they don't offer 1Gbps, but they laid fiber so they can hit those speeds when the time is right.
by pwarner 12y ago
Verizon never gets enough credit for their fiber roll out. Sure they don't offer 1Gbps, but they laid fiber so they can hit those speeds when the time is right. And until then 50 or 100Mbps over fiber is a lot better than 20Mbps over DSL. Not just in the speed department but in terms of latency and consistency. DSL does amazing things but is just at greater risk of interference. My DSL seems to trane at different speeds each day. Fiber is just a much better medium, things don't get too weird until you want greater than 100 Gbps per wavelength.
Disclosure: I wrote some of the software for the early hardware behind FiOS back 10 years ago or so. Wow FiOS has been out there for a long time. Also I am old.
- lotsofpulp 12y ago...what fiber roll out? As far as I know, they did some token fiber installations, but the vast, vast majority will never get it. In fact, from what I've read, they took the subsidies for fiber, and used it to build out their metered wireless network. http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140424/06185027014/verizon-knows-youre-sucker-takes-taxpayer-subsidies-broadband-doesnt-deliver-lobbies-to-drop-requirements.shtml http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140424/06185027014/verizo... http://www.nj.com/cumberland/index.ssf/2014/03/hopewell_township_and_cumberland_county_officials_say_verizon_is_reneging_on_fios_promise_to_new_jer.html http://www.nj.com/cumberland/index.ssf/2014/03/hopewell_town...
- pwarner 12y agoDepends how you define token? They have about 5 million subscribers on FTTH. Supposedly passing 18M houses. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verizon_FiOS#Stable_footprint_.282010-present.29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verizon_FiOS#Stable_footprint_.... Note: I was focused on them being technical leaders. Which they were. I make no endorsement of their business practices. Also they were not the first to FTTH in the US or not the world, just the first big mover in the US.
- lotsofpulp 12y agoSorry, I was talking about the huge about-face they did once smartphones became popular and they realized there were much larger profit margins to be had in the wireless industry, so basically started shutting down expansion of fiber internet.
- yuhong 12y agoI think Ivan Seidenberg was fired because of short term returns on FiOS being low.
- Lost_BiomedE 12y agoVerizon never gets enough credit for their fiber roll out. Check the amount of subsidies that they have received over the years for promising fiber to the home. That is why, IMO.
- pwarner 12y agoAgain, my statement was focused on the technical side. They were ahead a bit there. I am not endorsing their business or policts although they did indirectly pay my bills for a few years. I actually think part of the problem is that no one in the bay area seems to know about FiOS because it doesn't exist here. They do offer the service to 15% or so of US household, but not me, or other folks by the bay.
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- josho 12y agoVerizon's fiber rollout was disingenous. Installer's were told to disconnect the old copper connections to the house. The old copper connections in many states had open access requirements. The new fibre connections meant you were now locked into Verizon's fibre with no open access requirement. Disclosure: I was a Verizon vendor and worked closely with several of their staff. At an individual level they were nice folks. But, their corporate culture only understood competing as a monopoly and didn't know how to play on a level playing field.