Burstein Excited About FIOS
I really like Dave Burstein's newsletter. It sounds like him. Even when it's just saying that “Verizon has extraordinary things coming”:
He says “GPON can go 250 down, 125 up” and because Verizon's fiber bandwidth is allocated dynamically users needing speeds of hundreds of megabits will have them.
(What's GPON? It's a Gigabit Passive Optical Network, so no optical repeaters. I can hear Dave's enthusiasm.)
Dave says they will have reached 18 million homes by 2010.
And Dave also says that Verizon will make all online video content (not just its own) available through its set-top box.
Thanks, Dave! This means that Verizon is quickly making fiber networks available to people across the country (taking out of service the copper lines to which common carriage obligations applied). The set-top box news is very interesting, and we'll see what happens there.
In other news, no vote this week on the Stevens bill. But he's threatening to bring it up again after the elections.