[opendtv] Re: NY Times: In Verizon Strike, Blue-Collar Stress Hits the Sidewalks
- From: Craig Birkmaier <brewmastercraig@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2016 08:17:52 -0400
On Apr 21, 2016, at 8:43 PM, Manfredi, Albert E
<albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Nope. Not here. In markets with FiOS, the only choice is FiOS for any new
customers, or if anything breaks with the DSL service.
What an absurd statement!
Verizon sold DSL in your market for years...almost two decades.
The discussion was about more affordable broadband deployments than FIOS, and
you claimed Verizon ignored these options. Obviously they did not!
The reality is that DSL is near end-of-life, and is now mostly being sold as a
low price/low performance later native to high speed broadband.
The fact that Verizon is now moving away from DSL in markets where they ALSO
deployed FIOS should come as no surprise. DSL cannot scale to the speeds that
consumers (and the FCC) are now demanding, at least without significant
additional investment with fiber to neighborhood risers. For Verizon, which has
already deployed FIOS in your neighborhood, it makes NO sense to keep promoting
DSL.
They force people to FiOS. Each home they force to FiOS requires hours of
labor, during the house call, as opposed to the DSL installation which
requires none. Maybe they discovered that this is expensive (duh), and that's
why they quit expanding FiOS. For me, should my DSL break, Verizon gave me
the choice of FiOS or go to Cox cable. They seem totally committed to this
expensive approach, and have quit expanding FiOS as proof of how clever it
was.
They have no choice. If they want to compete they need to focus on the
technology that allows them to compete with cable. In markets where they
invested in FIOS this makes perfect sense.
In markets where they did not deploy FIOS they face a much different challenge.
Is it economically viable to deploy FIOS today?
That's the core of what the article that started this thread was about.
They face multiple challenges:
1. Higher than industry average labor costs to build new networks.
2. Margin pressure on the sale of MVPD services that are critical to the
economic success of FIOS deployments.
3. The potential for broadband rate regulation and other service requirements
that may reduce long term ROI.
The article says the business is good and the margins are high, Craig. The
article's point is that Verizon seems to the only one giving up on cabled
broadband. Again:
Where they have already invested in FIOS Bert. And even here items 2 & 3 above
still apply. Investing in new FIOS build outs is another story, as the article
explained.
There should be no reason for DSL to not compete well against cable
broadband, because fast variants of DSL have existed for years. Yes, it means
getting closer to homes with fiber, but the cable HFC plants have to do the
same.
Thanks for making my case. The cable guys have already upgraded their networks
with fiber to the neighborhood, or are in the process of doing so now. DSL is a
dead end.
Regards
Craig
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