Fiber has always been the future for the company and everyone knows it.
Getting ready for the down/upvote boomer to inflate this or deflate this post.
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How much would this cost each customer? Costing more through VZ?
Video is losing subscribers, as it should. Content creators are too greedy despite there being an abundance of things to watch. The company should be a reliable pipe, not a content provider. There is nothing reliable about 5G apart from its results never living up to its claims.
Confusing, Fios continues to be the revenue generated? Fios is losing subscribers? 5G is not a plausible option?
This complexity is difficult for the consumer to make a decision and become a customer.
VZ needs many more customers.
lol, call them out and then they’ll do it. The troll can be manipulated.
The trick to avoiding the downvote, upvote troll is mention it as inevitable. Works in every post.
As a v teamer in Europe, fiber is being pushed everywhere. 5G is the past.
HV and his non-American homies pushed 5G because fiber and fttp are almost impossible in Europe and Asia because of geography, and national borders and too late for the party to be able to build fiber networks from sea to sea. That is what is so foolish about 5g which is unnecessary in the USA with good fiber and ubiquitous 4G++.
Total knuckleheads on the board. This is just like the "electrification" peeps when the USA has the most abundant coal, oil, and gas resources - unlike European and Asian nations.
5G will go the way of the electric car over the next decade. Quirky but impractical. Like 5G in the USA.
Yes - fiber will beat 5G. I don't see the use case for either. I have 100 megabit service and it is more than what I need to work from home, watch streaming video (occasoinally at the same time.) Reliability - not some super bandwidth figure - is what is important to me. I'll take a 100mb connection that never goes down over gigabit service that may be flaky any day.
There is no future in video. Xfinity has been losing video subscribers for a couple years now also. This is a trend not unique to just VZ. Look at Fios data numbers for a true barometer of the Fios customers. A person may cancel video but keep our data, it is happening daily.
FTTP Overview: https://www.verizon.com/enhancedcommunities/login/fttp_faqs.jsp#NumberOne
Fiber-To-The-Premises (FTTP) is the ultimate high-speed broadband access to digital services and internet access. FTTP will provide customers with new feature-rich products with an improved service experience. FTTP systems involve the installation of optical fiber from homes or businesses to a central point. Fiber-optic technology delivers internet, voice, and video at lightening-fast speeds – from 2M to 30M bit/sec and beyond. Furthermore, fiber optics can transmit data over much longer distances; 6.2 to 49.6 miles over single-mode fiber-optic cabling vs. a few thousand feet for copper cabling.
What is FTTP?
Fios data beats 5g . It actually works
FiOS video is losing subscribers every quarter. No future there.