Cox too is only going to be building
the ftth optical pon networks into new housing developments as
they go, retrofit is pretty much unlikely if you have a house
today with coax.
Telco's like CL are screwed, they *have* to upgrade to fiber to
even remain competitive as dsl cannot go much more on 2 wires
untwisted, but sheilded coax, with clean upstream provider plants,
can stretch this a way well into the gigabits so even without
fiber, you're not totally screwed having *only* cable (unless in
ancient parts of town with crap old coax from acquisitions)
What is bunk is this now makes Cox your mostly only choice for
modern fast internet in legacy areas, so certainly they'll abuse
the pseudo-monopoly until someone decides to take on the cost to
refurb old areas with fiber (read: not unless you pay for it,
somehow).
-mb
On 12/04/2014 12:06 PM, Stephen Partington wrote:
most of the fiber areas are the really new
locations. however due to the google fiber rollout this is
changing alot right now as Cox is getting ready to announce
gigabit speeds in order to compete with google fiber.
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