Telcos invading each other's turf

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Richard Bennett <richard () bennett com>
Date: December 31, 2008 4:33:15 PM EST
To: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Subject: Telcos invading each other's turf

Dave -

IP might be interested in this story. Network World reports that  
Verizon is over-building into AT&T territory in North Texas, providing  
consumers with a choice they've never had before. I don't have details  
yet, but some of your readers certainly do.

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/123108-fiber-att-verizon.html?fsrc=netflash-rss

Verizon is setting up a Wild West-style telecom showdown by expanding  
its FiOS network further into territory traditionally held by rival  
AT&T, says a new report from Information Gatekeepers.

According to IGI, a telecom consulting firm, Verizon's recent FiOS  
expansion into areas of northern Texas could mark the first time that  
one carrier has directly competed with another in its own franchised  
territory for residential wireline Internet services. Traditionally,  
Verizon and AT&T have competed with each other primarily for wireless  
voice and data services, as the companies' landline businesses have  
been dependent on architecture that each company has purchased over  
the years from the original "Baby Bell" companies formed in the wake  
of AT&T's breakup in 1984.

But with Verizon now offering video, voice and data services over its  
fiber-optic network in AT&T’s home state, IGI says that the telecom  
industry could be "drastically" changed. In particular, IGI says that  
Verizon's decision to "overbuild" its facilities into AT&T's franchise  
areas could spark AT&T to begin overbuilding as well, thus turning  
competition for building out services into a potential "nationwide  
phenomenon."

[more at the NW site]

RB
--
Richard Bennett
Network Architect




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