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Cable companies run fiber fib ad blitz in fight with Verizon’s FiOS
Comcast and its cable allies have lined up a series of broadcast ads belittling Verizon's vaunted FiOS network, claiming to have a larger fiber-optic network. What the ads don't point out is that while fiber is used in the network, it doesn't go to the home as is the case in most FiOS applications.
Cox, Charter Communications, Cablevision and Time Warner Cable all have thrown in with Comcast in running the misleading ads. Comcast also is starting to run the ads in some newspapers. It recently ran one in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer saying, "We already have a fiber-optic network serving ALL our homes."
Verizon and cable companies have locked horns in the courts over ads in the past. Could this be the next ad campaign to get lost in the courts?
For more:
- See this AP story
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Comments
Posted by To Citizen | June 25, 2008 - 9:11am
So basically you're saying 'we could do FTTP if we wanted to', but you haven't and you don't so inferring to customers that you do just because your backend is fiber is misleading.
Posted by Citizen | June 24, 2008 - 1:32pm
Most cable systems have a fiber optic backbone. Technology allows cable companies to hang tough with FiOS. I work for a cable company is a rural community which has been using fiber optics long before the local phone company. We have added much more fiber over the years and currently are overlashing much more. I currently have 10 fiber projects in various stages. If we ever did need a fiber to the home we'd have far less work to do then 90% of the phone companies.
Posted by Peter Svensson | June 24, 2008 - 11:18am
The story is on Time's web site, but it's actually from the Associated Press.
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