Ryan Simpkins wrote: > Is anyone on the list using Comcast's fiber to the node? They are claiming you > can get up to 50Mbps down, and 16Mbps up. They will be pulling the fiber down > to each subscriber in our neighborhood next week, and a lot of people we know > have signed up. I've been asked if it is any good. I'm curious if anyone is > currently using it. > pulling fiber to each subscriber? isn't that fiber to the home and not fiber to the node? i'm surprised to hear that comcast is pulling fiber to the home. > Welcome to capitalism. Very good play by Comcast. This offering sounds like it > will make Qwest have to work even harder to make their FTTN offering viable > (good luck Qwest, you're in big trouble!). The average consumer won't know how > this works, and will be glad to sign up. > i guess welcome to capitalism until it drives all other options out of the market. :( that is probably just my usual skepticism of the big telcos (yeah, i consider them a telco now) and their usually underhanded practices.
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