[opendtv] Re: NY Times: In Verizon Strike, Blue-Collar Stress Hits the Sidewalks
- From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2016 00:58:03 +0000
Craig Birkmaier wrote:
BS, right? You can't conflate land line telephone service with
cabled broadband service.
Why not. It is what has allowed these union employees to drive
up their compensation rates over the years,
Because hopefully the press should be about explaining things to the clueless,
instead of confusing them even more. If what you say is true, and it well could
be, then use THAT angle in the article. Explain the mechanisms and the
motivations. The emphasis on supposed "middle class jobs" is, you know,
annoyingly platidudinous.
But Verizon and AT&T are not capturing significant market share.
Which is entirely their own fault. Verizon may be adding Boston, but it stopped
way prematurely with FiOS. It gave up, in spite of the good reviews, in spite
of the "common wisdom" (note the quotes) that FTTH is futureproof, the only way
to go, and on and on. Cable companies had the coax to homes, which made
broadband simpler to install (i.e. cheaper). Perhaps Verizon jumped the gun,
and discovered this too late. But why?
FTTH requires house calls. That makes it very expensive. Cable too required
house calls, and was expensive to install, but they used those MVPD revenues,
while walled gardens were the only game in town. Now, that coax can readily be
repurposed. I think Verizon jumped to FTTH prematurely. There are transitional
schemes available, and they flatly refused to consider them.
It is the combination of broadband AND MVPD service that makes
overbuilding the cable monopoly with FIOS financially attractive.
The MVPD business in decline, and the broadband business on the rise, should
also factor into the strategic thinking. In short, it makes sense to develop
strategies for broadband deployment that DON'T depend so heavily on the overly
burdensome MVPD model, which technology is finding ways to bypass.
Not exactly the ideal conditions to risk spending billions to
deploy FIOS.
Which was a given from day 1.
Bert
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