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Fiber to the Home — For $10,000Open in New Window
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Verizon Won’t Let Market Woes Stall Fiber or Its Alltel DealOpen in New Window
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Stacey Higginbotham reports that comments made by Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg indicate that the company will continue its fiber deployments and deal with alltel in spite of the slowing economy. read more »
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Qwest finally jumps on the fiber bandwagon with 20Mbps DSLOpen in New Window
Avatar Posted by god 222 days ago (http://arstechnica.com)
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Qwest has finally unveiled its fiber plans, and as expected, the telecom will be running fiber to the node like AT&T. But its decision not to offer TV service means that there's enough bandwidth for read more »
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New plastic optical fiber could solve the "last mile" traditional fiber problem.Open in New Window
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One of the issues providers encounter when running fiber directly to homes (e.g. Verizon FiOS) is an extremely high install cost (around $900 per subscriber). Joel Hruska reports on a new Korean inve read more »
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Verizon Boosts FiOS Speeds Up to 50 Mbps.Open in New Window
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Verizon continues to up the bar when it comes to high speed connections, now according to Om Malik offering up to 50 Mbps connections to its FiOS subscribers at higher subscription rates. read more »
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