From The Online Reporter
- Sees Fiber & LTE as Its Future
- Does VDSL2 Vectoring Have a Place?
Verizon continues to make it very clear that it wants to move as many broadband and phone subscribers off its copper wire-based network and on to either fiber or LTE.
“In wireline we are focused on moving customers to fiber-based assets,” said Verizon CFO Fran Shammo on a conference call this week with analysts. The company had previously said that it was not replacing copper with copper in areas that were damaged by tropical storm Sandy. “Copper does not mix with water; Fiber optics doesn’t care if it’s in water,” Shammo said.
Shammo said Verizon’s target was to move 200,000 subscribers from copper to fiber and that it had achieved those goals. He said the target for 2013 is to move another 300,000.
However, Verizon still has about 3.3 million subscribers on its copper wire network, so at that rate it will take it about 10 years to get all of them off the copper wires. Verizon will probably move some of those to LTE — the ones that live in sparsely populated areas. Verizon is showing on its Web site an LTE modem from Arcadyan that is says is capable of up to 100 Mbps down and 50 Mbps up. Even 10% of those speeds would make subscribers that currently have no or very little DSL broadband very happy.
http://news.verizonwireless.com/news/2013/01/arcadyan-LTE-multiservice-gateway.html
Verizon says it has 4G LTE in 476 markets in the US, encompassing more than 273 million potential people. It expects to complete the rollout in 2013.
What we don’t know is how much Verizon will charge for the wireless service to those LTE modems and what if any data usage limits it will impose.
Unlike AT&T and CenturyLink, Verizon is not talking about VDSL2 Vectoring — or whether it’s so convinced that fiber and LTE are the future and that it is not even testing it.
If it has a footprint where it competes against a cableco but does not plan to install FiOS fiber, VDSL2 Vectoring might make sense because Verizon already has the copper wires connected to homes. On the other hand, it may be convinced that LTE can enable it to compete speed-wise against the cablecos.
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- Sees Fiber & LTE as Its Future
- Does VDSL2 Vectoring Have a Place?
Verizon continues to make it very clear that it wants to move as many broadband and phone subscribers off its copper wire-based network and on to either fiber or LTE.
“In wireline we are focused on moving customers to fiber-based assets,” said Verizon CFO Fran Shammo on a conference call this week with analysts. The company had previously said that it was not replacing copper with copper in areas that were damaged by tropical storm Sandy. “Copper does not mix with water; Fiber optics doesn’t care if it’s in water,” Shammo said.
Shammo said Verizon’s target was to move 200,000 subscribers from copper to fiber and that it had achieved those goals. He said the target for 2013 is to move another 300,000.
However, Verizon still has about 3.3 million subscribers on its copper wire network, so at that rate it will take it about 10 years to get all of them off the copper wires. Verizon will probably move some of those to LTE — the ones that live in sparsely populated areas. Verizon is showing on its Web site an LTE modem from Arcadyan that is says is capable of up to 100 Mbps down and 50 Mbps up. Even 10% of those speeds would make subscribers that currently have no or very little DSL broadband very happy.
http://news.verizonwireless.com/news/2013/01/arcadyan-LTE-multiservice-gateway.html
Verizon says it has 4G LTE in 476 markets in the US, encompassing more than 273 million potential people. It expects to complete the rollout in 2013.
What we don’t know is how much Verizon will charge for the wireless service to those LTE modems and what if any data usage limits it will impose.
Unlike AT&T and CenturyLink, Verizon is not talking about VDSL2 Vectoring — or whether it’s so convinced that fiber and LTE are the future and that it is not even testing it.
If it has a footprint where it competes against a cableco but does not plan to install FiOS fiber, VDSL2 Vectoring might make sense because Verizon already has the copper wires connected to homes. On the other hand, it may be convinced that LTE can enable it to compete speed-wise against the cablecos.
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