[Cialug] speaking of fiber, qwest?

[David Bierce]

When I lived in Wisconsin and worked for CenturyTel (A telephone  
company that was in the process of modeling themselves after Qwest),  
they were still rolling out brand new copper trunks to brand now high  
density housing divisions in Wisconsin and Minnesota, but were forced  
in other markets to roll out fiber to home in Washington and Oregon,  
kicking and screaming, cause the PCU's allowed anyone with the will  
and the means to lay down copper or fiber to anyones home.

Would Qwest in metro Iowa be any different than CTL in that reguard?

Dave


On Jul 1, 2008, at 12:23 PM, Dave Weis wrote:

>
> On Tue, 1 Jul 2008, Neal Daringer wrote:
>> my understanding was the the "last mile" is still copper. is this  
>> correct?
>
> Yes, ADSL2+
>
> Shameless plug - we've had this for almost 2 years in some areas and  
> also support Annex M on short loops to get over 1 megabit uploads,  
> up to 2.5 megs on very short loops.
>
> ddave
>
>> On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 12:17 PM, Dave Weis  
>> <djweis at internetsolver.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Tue, 1 Jul 2008, Matthew Nuzum wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Maybe this was mentioned a few weeks ago but it didn't register  
>>>> until
>>>> the other day. I stopped at the mall to grab some lunch and there  
>>>> was
>>>> a sign for Qwest fiber optic Internet.
>>>> Anyone know where in Des Moines they're offering this? I saw  
>>>> something
>>>> on the website that lead me to believe its priced at $99/mo, which
>>>> seems a little high for just Internet (even though it's 20mbps).  
>>>> Maybe
>>>> if that price is right it includes more than just inet. FiOS by
>>>> Verizon is $57.99/mo 20m down/5mbps up and $69.99 for 20/20.
>>>
>>> It's in parts of West Des Moines and Urbandale now. They are  
>>> expanding it at
>>> a fairly rapid clip.
>>>
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