Re: AT&T Turns Up Gig Heat in 21 New MetrosAT&T CFO John Stephens said on its Q1 call that: "We are very optimistic about those markets and believe we are uniquely positioned b/c of our backbone to build off of and provide that high-quality service." (He accidentially said "opportunistic" instead of "optimistic," which I thought was quite amusing.)
Re: AT&T Turns Up Gig Heat in 21 New MetrosA lot of municipalities are clueless when it comes to encouraging FTTx. Case in point: Columbia, Mo., which bid for Google Fiber and joined Gig.U, but charges operators $1.91/foot/year to put fiber in municipal rights-of-way.
Re: AT&T Turns Up Gig Heat in 21 New MetrosI'm with Sarah. I'll believe it when I see it. Until then, it sounds like more "Fiber to the Press Release" to me. Wake me when they've connected some 1 Gb/s subscribers.
Re: AT&T Turns Up Gig Heat in 21 New MetrosIt helped Google to do that, got people asking their local govts about the "fiber hoods." Maybe AT&T sees it as another way to nudge the municipalities?
Re: AT&T Turns Up Gig Heat in 21 New MetrosI was surprised to see AT&T name specific cities and towns. I guess if they say it now and end up not doing it in some of these places because the muncipalities aren't receptive enough they can just throw the municipalities under the bus, but it still isn't going to look good to a current AT&T customer who wants this, sees their city on the list, and then ends up not getting it.
What's it good for?I'm excited to see San Diego on the list, and I hope we get the service. I'm not optimistic -- we're located literally a few hundred feet outside of metropolitan San Diego and miles from downtown.
Still, a boy can dream.
But whenever I read these stories about gigabit Internet, I wonder what applications will be enabled. Pervasive broadband in its current state permitted online streaming video. You could do video before, but it took hours to download a movie. If you started a download today, you could expect to be able to watch tomorrow. Now of course you can watch instantly. (Most of the time. And you complain when there is a buffering delay.)
So the current state of broadband changed online video from something you could do with difficulty to something you can do easily.
What will gigabit Internet permit? What can we now do with difficulty that we could do easily if our Internet was a hundred times faster than it is now?
AT&T Turns Up Gig Heat in 21 New Metros@Sarah, good points. There is a big difference between talking and implementing! We will watch and see if they can and do.
Re: AT&T Turns Up Gig Heat in 21 New MetrosEh, it all seemed like lip service to me. They plan to begin talks. They could do this. Exploring. Candidates. etc. etc. I'll believe it when I see it.
AT&T Turns Up Gig Heat in 21 New Metros@DanJonesLRMobile - Google is smart! If they are inviting others to share the burden, it will be interesting to see what the payoff packages look like. It truly will advance telecom.
Still, a boy can dream.
But whenever I read these stories about gigabit Internet, I wonder what applications will be enabled. Pervasive broadband in its current state permitted online streaming video. You could do video before, but it took hours to download a movie. If you started a download today, you could expect to be able to watch tomorrow. Now of course you can watch instantly. (Most of the time. And you complain when there is a buffering delay.)
So the current state of broadband changed online video from something you could do with difficulty to something you can do easily.
What will gigabit Internet permit? What can we now do with difficulty that we could do easily if our Internet was a hundred times faster than it is now?