I have been lobbying Century Link to light up gigabit speeds in my neighborhood as they have been limiting the speed of light down to 100 megs. When compared with other avaliable ISP's such as Cox who is now doing 300 megs and is going to do Gigalife later on this year in Tucson it is actually in the best interest for them to do this sooner than later. Not that they are getting killed already as the majority of the homes in my neighborhood have taken Cox over CL even with fiber availability.
Right now I am on GPON 40 so when Gigabit does become available I am good to go.
I emailed the VPO for Arizona asking about availability and basically complaining about how GPON fiber is limited because CL went cheap and 100 megs wont cut it for my UHD streams, basically saying get with the times like how Google, Cox, ATT, ect have by offering gigabit service to all of their fiber users, and cable is going to kick your rear end with Docsis 3.1 so get your network together kind of letter.
I thought it ended up on deaf ears. Until yesterday. I got an email from the AOM in my area asking for my address so they could see if 1 gigabit was available so they could research the facility database for availability.
I replied back with my address and explained that the Del Lago subdivision down the street has it but you have to be 55 or older to buy into it, and I really would like to get gigabit services. No reply back yet but is this a good sign?
There were subcontractors out the other day that run the connecting fiber circuits in my neighborhood and had the man holes popped open. (hopefully researching to run more fiber) I would think that it would be easy to run as everything should be some in ground cable runs already ran in ground (I would hope) given that this is a brand new subdivision. What are your thoughts? Also, Some people on here think I hate CL but I honestly dont. I just want them to provide a level of service that is consistent with the AT&T's and Googles of the world. They also need to do this across the board. If google can build out a world class network in 15 different city's from scratch and not blink an eye, CL can do the same.
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