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Re: Bandwidth reality U.S. except FIOS behind, Competition works
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 19:12:42 -0400
Agreed djf Begin forwarded message: From: "David P. Reed" <dpreed () reed com> Date: May 22, 2007 6:19:03 PM EDT To: dave () farber net Cc: ip () v2 listbox comSubject: Re: [IP] Bandwidth reality U.S. except FIOS behind, Competition works
I'm a little troubled by the promotion of Verizon's service over RCN's and Comcast's. RCN at my home is rather good service, with 20 Mbps down (peak is somewhat higher). Comcast is offering such levels of service in some places.
But the key thing is that FIOS is hardly widely deployed! In fact Verizon sold off its businesses in a number of rural states, perhaps because that would make their percentage of deployment look better.
Let's be fair. In homes passed, all US broadband offerings pretty much suck compared to, say, S. Korea.
Don't write subject lines that pretty up the picture as if Verizon is some kind of special case. Most places Verizon has no near term plans to do FIOS at all, and that's even if they get special national franchising overrides on the real cash cow - subscription TV.
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