FCC calls AT&T’s fiber bluff, demands detailed construction plans
Source: Ars Technica
Two days after AT&T claimed it has to "pause" a 100-city fiber build because of uncertainty over network neutrality rules, the Federal Communications Commission today asked the company to finally detail its vague plans for fiber construction.
Despite making all sorts of bold promises about bringing fiber to customers and claiming its fiber construction is contingent on the government giving it what it wants, AT&T has never detailed its exact fiber plans. For one thing, AT&T never promised to build in all of the 100 cities and towns it named as potential fiber spots. The company would only build in cities and towns where local leaders gave AT&T whatever it wanted. In all likelihood, only a small portion of the 100 municipalities were likely to get fiber, and nobody knows which ones.
... Ferris asked Quinn for a response by November 21. AT&T told Re/code that it is happy to respond to the questions posed by the FCC in its review of our merger with DirecTV. As we made clear earlier this week, we remain committed to our DirecTV merger-related build-out plans.
Read more: http://arstechnica.com/business/2014/11/fcc-calls-atts-fiber-bluff-demands-detailed-construction-plans/
Eridenus
(52 posts)and it ain't anywhere in downtown Denver or southeast Denver...
So I question their lies.
Erich Bloodaxe BSN
(14,733 posts)(Ohio) if you want fiber, you have to pay for the entire length to connect it to the next nearest fiber, which means that only the really rich can afford to take the plunge. The rest of us have to wait until it's basically already on our streets.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)onenote
(42,759 posts)Trying to figure out what the reagan connection is and the only thing i can figure you're referring to is the fact that the decade long antitrust case against AT&T finally was resolved in 1982 by the Modified Final Judgment (modified and administered by Carter appointee Judge Harold Greene).
elleng
(131,106 posts)Now let's see if they produce anything useful.
imthevicar
(811 posts)JustAnotherGen
(31,879 posts)Buying Iusacell. Down in Mexico.
belzabubba333
(1,237 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)JustAnotherGen
(31,879 posts)Their existing fiber yet. In their race to be the biggest they misunderstood consumer demand.
I don't think the consumer demand is there for high speed fiber based data. It's there - but it's not as huge a demand as regular posters at a message board (ie we at DU are web centric) - need it to be. We are different. We are information sponges. Not Instagram posters.
And I want net neutrality - because it gets us closer to a divestiture scenario - and I have a niche idea as a reseller I could be succesful at. But the fastest way to get to a divestiture scenario is for the big 4 to get just a little bigger.
I also think they have lost their shirts on the iPhone 6 thefts. My company was prepared - even with that prep - we are still pulling DFill off of trucks. My understanding is they don't have a freight control org that interoperates with their homeland security functions. Look for them to write off fraud for Q4 when they release their earnings next year.
JustAnotherGen
(31,879 posts)Im in industry. Look at the history of Iusacell. They made a massive mistake.
juxtaposed
(2,778 posts)this bull SHIT is like getting the sheep out for carbon tax.... utter bull SHIT
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/30/chattanooga-gig-high-speed-internet-tech-boom
elehhhhna
(32,076 posts)They do it here in Houston