Any components blocking two-way traffic still must be replaced, but Terayon's system will work on older, noisy, all-coaxial systems without the expense of fiber upgrades and node splits.
And insult to injury, by the end of 2003, Verizon had collected almost $4 billion -- approximately $1,135 per household, from excess phone rates and tax perks, paid by customers for a fiber optic upgrade that never happened.
Thus, every low income family, senior citizen, residential or small business, paid for a fiber optic upgrade of the state utility network -- I.e., customers paid for services most will never get or even use.
Next, local phone customers also paid extra for upgrades they will never get as there were multiple rate increases, some of which included fiber optic upgrades.
Note: In the last article, we detailed major holes in Verizon's New York City and New York State's deployment of fiber optic upgrades, known as FiOS.
Billions of dollars are at stake and these are but a few areas that have directly impacted the fiber optic upgrades of the City New York over the last decade.
Adding to this, competitors, from the wireless companies to other DAS providers or companies offering broadband, and others are blocked from using the new fiber optic upgrades... even if they are being used for wireless.
Moreover, nothing had been built from 1993 through 2006 and the State didn't acknowledge that there was ever a plan for fiber optic upgrades which started in 1993!
Some tent companies offer aircraft or carbon fiber pole upgrades from their heavier fiberglass or aluminum stock poles.
The fundamental proposition for network equipment manufacturers and operators is to use the power of semiconductors, software, and fiber optics to upgrade telecom networks and to provide services to customers that have adopted or are adopting increasingly powerful PCs, Internet applications, video display systems, and other advanced technologies.
