Comments on: AT&T'S Slow Road to Fast Broadband

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Huawei Takes Copper to the Limit With 700 Mbps DSL: Tech News « — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 20:17:26 +0000

[...] the neighborhood, then uses the existing copper to connect to the home.) I’ve called it the slow road to fast broadband, but it’s certainly less risky and much, much cheaper. Recent ResearchDigg Relaunch Shows How [...]

By: AT&T Underwhelms With U-Verse Upgrade

AT&T Underwhelms With U-Verse Upgrade — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 14:26:41 +0000

[...] their U-Verse will get faster. It won’t. This isn’t as exciting as the 80 Mbps that AT&T’s John Stankey spoke with me about in May. And for those who don’t already have U-Verse via fiber to the node in their neighborhood, [...]

By: chrisconder

chrisconder — Sat, 22 May 2010 12:46:23 +0000

milking the copper legacy network, protecting its investment in obsolete tech instead of delivering the future. similar to openretch in the UK, they are happy working on the scarcity model instead of rolling out fibre to deliver the end game... sad.

By: Ramon B. Nuez Jr.

Ramon B. Nuez Jr. — Sat, 22 May 2010 12:43:13 +0000

This article makes AT&T just a little suspect. Stankey seems to be giving more excuses than a real broadband vision. His comment about FTTH is rather disturbing -- AT&T seems comfortable with providing FTTB at U-verse speeds.

Stankey does not believe that the average customer needs 100Mbps -- suggesting that AT&T is more knowledgeable in this space than the FCC and their Broadband Plan.

The only tool available in an argument of this nature is competition. I am hoping between Verizon's FTTH, DOCSIS 3.0 and Google's efforts -- AT&T will have no other alternative but to "keep up with the Joneses".

By: Brett Glass

Brett Glass — Fri, 21 May 2010 18:02:18 +0000

As usual, an anti-ISP article from Stacey Higginbotham, slamming AT&T for being innovative and fiscally responsible.

By: Ray

Ray — Wed, 19 May 2010 18:15:39 +0000

I know this was planned from the start to be a "friendly" interview and a PR opportunity for AT&T, but some of Mr. Stankey's comments would make even the most stone-faced marketing professional cringe:

"We’ve been doing wired broadband for 10 years and we have meaningful curves in terms of speeds and demand that are statistically accurate and predictable."

With AT&T not present in many markets, this is like a New York city hot dog vendor being able to predict demand in Venice Beach.

Given the constant and loud chorus of complainants from bloggers and forum dwellers concerning AT&T's handling of both their wired and wireless businesses, Mr. Stankey's statements are bold indeed.

By: Denis

Denis — Wed, 19 May 2010 16:38:30 +0000

I know for a fact that AT&T cannot predict their customers' needs because I am unfortunate enough to be one of their customers. I have DSL that's supposed to be "up to 3 MBps," but I've never seen half of that. Why haven't I switched? Because they are the only provider where I live. I don't count cable; I've had it before, and it always stopped working when any sports event needed the bandwidth for HD. They're even more evil than AT&T.

The FCC needs to force competition on these buggers, and then they'll learn how much broadband their customers need.

By: AT&T: Our Broadband Is Fast Enough – Company remains confident in plan to nurse copper | FiberToTheWhatever

Wed, 19 May 2010 16:16:07 +0000

[...] AT&T isn’t worried about Comcast 50 Mbps service encroaching on their territory, because they don’t think users want those speeds yet: “We ve been doing wired broadband for 10 years and we have meaningful curves in terms of [...]

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 19 May 2010 01:30:38 +0000

80 Mb/s... 100 Mb/s... I'm stuck at freaking 5 Mb/s on AT&T. U-verse stopped around 10 blocks from my San Francisco address, and the Death Star seems to have no plans to deliver it here.

Sure, cable is available. Technically. I see the poor Comcast guys digging in the street almost every month, trying to keep equipment running. Gave them up after a while.

Please don't tell me about 100 vs 80 - just get me to 10 or 20.

Peace...

By: Glenn

Glenn — Tue, 18 May 2010 23:27:59 +0000

Uhh... sure. AT&T has a model that can predict the bandwidth needs of its customers accurately. And the prices they'll pay. And none of that is impacted by the fact that the way we use the internet is evolving somewhat unpredictably. Or by the competitive environment. Or anything. And if you believe that...