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Cable Companies Suffering as Verizon FIOS Popularity Grows

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FIOS, the new fiber optic network of Verizon, has caused strife for cable companies as existing customers move to the newer service. The speed and reliability of FIOS is beyond compare, and they are offering it for the same price.

Cable is offering free services and other incentives in response to the competition from FIOS, and they have implemented "boost" and metro ethernet technology. They are aiming to double the speed that they are offering now through new technology that is being developed.

The cable companies would use their existing infrastructure and lines with the new technology, but the new developments would allow for a superior and speedier service. The cable company's headquarters houses the new system.

The main complaints from cable customers concern the bandwidth caps on their connections if they have sustained high usage over a few hours. Recently, cable companies have removed this cap. Customers though, have not noticed the change. The main issue this cap was targeting was those customers using shareware software.

This afflicted many users, including those with boost service; moreover, trying to get uncapped took a lot of effort and time. Add in the issues cable users may have when other users in there area are utilizing the Internet heavily or when there?s bad weather, and the frustration builds.

Going with FIOS alleviates this strife for most people since bandwidth is not an issue. The Fiber Optic networks that Verizon has laid out are almost limitless compared to the cable companies? coaxial copper networks.

While some FIOS customers might have had installation problems as Verizon desperately tried to catch up to demand, overall reliability has been well above average. And the best part about it is that the infrastructure is brand new, meaning little or no service interruption once you are up and running.

FIOS should be a warning to the cable companies to get their act together. They need to make changes in their infrastructure and change their older copper networks. This will cost cable companies a lot of money, but in the long run, maybe they can find recycling solutions to their outdated system.
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