Comments on: Is a Cable Perfect Competitive Storm Forming?

By: blog.rbach.net - Copper Sexy Again

blog.rbach.net - Copper Sexy Again — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 18:10:10 +0000

[...] the incumbent telcos are feeling the pressure from the cablecos DOCSIS 3.0 rollouts. The Alcatel-Lucent’ 300 Mbps VDSL2 technology should be scooped up by incumbent telcos [...]

By: Mikey

Mikey — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 01:06:17 +0000

Effective March 1st, we (a very small ILEC) also doubled our DSL speeds to all of our customers at no additional cost, although our new top speed is 10Mg/sec download. We wanted to be sure to stay ahead of any potential competitors (and mobile broadband) that come into our serving area. Customers were notified of the additional speed only yesterday, and I personally took a call from a customer who was VERY grateful and appreciative. We hope the appreciation turns into long-term loyalty.

By: Rick

Rick — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 21:12:12 +0000

Mikey – when you doubled the speed, what did you have to do to your equipment? did you have to swap anything out or was it simply changing some settings? we're interested in what your overall costs were to do this upgrade.

By: Bernie

Bernie — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:56:10 +0000

And small telcos are responding. In response to this post, I was referred to EATEL, a Louisiana based ILEC with FTTH. They too recognize the need to increase speeds, at no additional cost to customers.