[IP] Re: Bandwidth reality U.S. except FIOS behind, Competition works

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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.com
Subject: 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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