Cox Data Usage Notification

[Michael Butash]

I'm curious to see the logistics of a company trying to move in and 
retrofit a city for something like fiber.  There's a reason there's 
really 2 players, cox and $mini-bell, they built before things were 
covered in concrete. I've worked for cox and seen that cities can take 
months to return permits (mesa/tempe was the worst) for any 
construction, which will be required amass to deliver anything like that.

New areas will always be prioritized, but for most of phoenix that is 
land-locked and built already, it doesn't mean much for expediency to 
get their google fiber in-town to incumbent areas with tons of 
dead-weight bureaucrats to sit on the permit orders waiting for a 
pension to kick in.

More competition is better, but I don't think cox is immediately worried 
with shielded coax delivering gigabit speeds soon (plus they are looking 
to replace coax with fiber too), and centurylink is in the same boat as 
google needing to replace dated 2-wire infrastructure with fiber as DSL 
is hitting its limits for year.

If they're smart, they'll work off of each other and just get us 
composite dwdm to our houses at some point.  PON networks seem a bit 
janky still after having built real transport networks.

-mb


On 05/13/2014 10:48 AM, Stephen Partington wrote:
> A vpn will make the usage anonymous, but not give you more or less.
>
> And Google fiber is why my move is specifically staying in Tempe :-)
>

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