GNG News Guy
05-30-2008, 09:40 AM
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A reader in Amsterdam sends word that one French cable operator, in an effort to try and convince people that running FTTH is too expensive, is telling France's largest paper that Verizon has stopped deploying FiOS due to cost. That would obviously be news to Verizon, whose $24 billion investment in fiber to the home remains on track. The Fiber Revolution (http://www.fiberevolution.com/2008/05/num%C3%A9ricable-buries-verizon-prematurely.html) blog offers the pertinent paragraph from French paper Le Monde (http://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2008/05/24/le-succes-des-cablo-operateurs-americains-fait-rever-numericable_1049140_3234.html):With a fiber deployed to the building basement and the vertical connection to the end-customer through large diameter coax, Num ricable says they don't really have a competition. A strategy validated by the US example. Comcast, the biggest cable-operator in the US, remains faithful to this hybrid fiber-cable architecture, while telecoms operator Verizon has just announced that it would stop installing optic fiber to the end-customer. Too slow, too expensive. Recruitment cost of a single subscriber was estimated at 5 000 dollars (3 170 euros) but valued only at 3 400 dollars.
A broadband competitor lying to sell product? I've never heard of such a thing.
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A reader in Amsterdam sends word that one French cable operator, in an effort to try and convince people that running FTTH is too expensive, is telling France's largest paper that Verizon has stopped deploying FiOS due to cost. That would obviously be news to Verizon, whose $24 billion investment in fiber to the home remains on track. The Fiber Revolution (http://www.fiberevolution.com/2008/05/num%C3%A9ricable-buries-verizon-prematurely.html) blog offers the pertinent paragraph from French paper Le Monde (http://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2008/05/24/le-succes-des-cablo-operateurs-americains-fait-rever-numericable_1049140_3234.html):With a fiber deployed to the building basement and the vertical connection to the end-customer through large diameter coax, Num ricable says they don't really have a competition. A strategy validated by the US example. Comcast, the biggest cable-operator in the US, remains faithful to this hybrid fiber-cable architecture, while telecoms operator Verizon has just announced that it would stop installing optic fiber to the end-customer. Too slow, too expensive. Recruitment cost of a single subscriber was estimated at 5 000 dollars (3 170 euros) but valued only at 3 400 dollars.
A broadband competitor lying to sell product? I've never heard of such a thing.
read comment(s) (http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/French-Paper-Claims-FiOS-Is-Dead-94852)