Hi FR1,
I guess I wasn't very good at being facetious. What I was implying was that wireless - in the context of bundled services such as those that were being discussed - is almost a dead issue these days. There are some guerrilla hobbyists out there doing some daring things with 802.11b in the way of extending their cable modem and dsl services to neighbors, but nothing on the order of what was envisaged for xMDS (i.e., LMDS and MMDS) several years ago. Wireless approaches to bundled everything offerings are just too bandwidth constrained and scarcely deployed to make a difference, IMO. That's what I meant earlier.
As for HFC or wireless migrating to FTTH, I don't see either of these regimes considering it at this time, although I keep on saying that sooner or later some cable operator (probably one that is still working off of old coax) may some day opt for an all-digital platform when they upgrade, going the way of FTTH instead of HFC.
But as yet I've not seen this happen, except for some municipal operators and one or two very small cooperatives who have been providing both telephone and cable tv services on older plant, and who now appear perched to take the plunge into fiber. Other than those, some overbuilders have been playing with FTTH, and the most prevalent ones have been those who contract to new developers putting in new subdivisions of housing. HTH.
FAC |
