On Jul 28, 2017, at 7:46 PM, Manfredi, Albert E
<albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Interesting. I didn't know that Cox too had started using FTTH, for Gb/s
service at least. Looks like same old story, it's an expensive way to go, and
yet, they're still talking about "FTTP in all greenfields."
Verizon and Google reportedly have planned for 5G for future installations.
Cox plans gigabit Internet for residential customers this yearMy guess is that they will not deploy residential FTTP. With Docsis 3.1 they
"We have fiber very deep in the network," cable company president says.
Jon Brodkin - 4/30/2014, 4:54 PM
Cox Communications President Pat Esser said the cable company will roll out
gigabit broadband to residential customers this year.
During an interview with Bloomberg yesterday, Esser said:
Delivering gigabit speeds to business service customers has always been a
high priority to us, and for years we've delivered gigabit broadband to
commercial customers across the country. We're working on our roadmap now
around the residential side of the business to bring gigabit speeds to
customers this year.
I'm talking about plans over time for all of our customers in all of our
markets having residential gigabit broadband speeds available to them, and
we're excited about it. Over the next two to three weeks we'll be announcing
which markets we're starting in.
Esser didn't mention whether this would be a fiber-to-the-home service, but
at another point he noted, "We have this very robust network, fiber very deep
in the network." Cox offers fiber-to-the-premises for business customers
needing 1Gbps or 10Gbps throughput.
Building out gigabit service across the company's entire residential
footprint will cost hundreds of millions of dollars in the long term, he
said. "We have to spend capital wisely, in ways that we can get the kind of
products out on the schedule we're committed to so we can get a return on
that capital in the ground," he said.
