Very amusing that CenturyLink is complaining about FTTH. Back in the '90s (when they were USWest) they pocketed billions of dollars in increased tariffs with the express purpose of them delivering FTTH. Short of a few trial locations, they didn't seem to do anything but pocket the money.
They could have been out in front with FTTH, but instead decided to just sit on their existing copper infrastructure. Which, at least in my town, seems to just be rotting away; seems like everywhere I go I see one of their boxes that's broken open with the innards spilling out and exposed directly to the weather.
This is the same company that refused to deploy DSLAMs anywhere but in the CO, because if they put them in neighborhoods it would allow CLECs to also deploy them around towns, and USWest didn't want to deploy full coverage, so they worried about CLECs deploying to neighborhoods that USWest didn't. So if you weren't within 18K feet of a CO, you were screwed for DSL service.
They could have been out in front with FTTH, but instead decided to just sit on their existing copper infrastructure. Which, at least in my town, seems to just be rotting away; seems like everywhere I go I see one of their boxes that's broken open with the innards spilling out and exposed directly to the weather.
This is the same company that refused to deploy DSLAMs anywhere but in the CO, because if they put them in neighborhoods it would allow CLECs to also deploy them around towns, and USWest didn't want to deploy full coverage, so they worried about CLECs deploying to neighborhoods that USWest didn't. So if you weren't within 18K feet of a CO, you were screwed for DSL service.