Frontier Promising 100-300 Mbps Speeds For Acquired Customers Sure, Frontier Communications just proved to recently acquired Florida, Texas and California customers that it can barely handle basic customer support, but the company is promising to make things better with a slate of upcoming speed upgrades for these users. Speaking at the JP Morgan Global Technology, Media and Telecom Conference, Frontier CEO Dan McCarthy stated that the company is existing remote terminal (RT) and central office (CO) sites with newer DSLAMS and bonding technologies to deliver 100 to 300 Mbps broadband speeds to many customers.

"Today, in a copper market within the CTF markets, the max speed may be 7 Mbps and that (is) in an area that's closed for sale because you have exceeded the capability of the technology," McCarthy said. "As we put in a next-gen technology solution, we go from 7 Mbps to 100 or 300 Mbps depending on the bonding and the different frequency of the DSLAM equipment we would use." The CEO made it clear that Verizon had been neglecting many of these unwanted markets, which have seen plenty of price hikes but few corresponding improvements in service speed or quality. "That is a quantum change from a product set perspective both on a commercial side, small business and consumer side," McCarthy said. "We think we can change the trend in the business by introducing a much better product." Granted Frontier currently has its hand full with simply Granted Frontier currently has its hand full with simply picking up the phone , and many of the territories that were acquired from Verizon years ago still say they're not being upgraded in any significant scale. That's because at the end of the day competition is what really drives upgrades -- and Frontier doesn't see a whole lot of it across large swaths of the company's footprint.







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guppy_fish

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Palm Harbor, FL 8 recommendations guppy_fish Premium Member Its all about the money



"as we complete CAF II funding over the next 6 years," McCarthy said"



Frontier is walking dead, all the FIOS subscribers they just lost is going to hit them hard, having to pay 600 million a year in interest on the loans for the CA/TX/FL purchase just became an impossibility based on the 10Q fillings. The people buying this stock are chasing the 8%+ dividend, its not going to end well for them. Here is what this is all about:"as we complete," McCarthy said"Frontier is walking dead, all the FIOS subscribers they just lost is going to hit them hard, having to pay 600 million a year in interest on the loans for the CA/TX/FL purchase just became an impossibility based on the 10Q fillings. The people buying this stock are chasing the 8%+ dividend, its not going to end well for them. vzguy

join:2008-10-12 8 recommendations vzguy Member Not on Copper If they think they can get 300 mbps outside of the testing lab then they don't know what they're talking about. They already have the best tech out there, FiOS, and it's theirs to piss away. manhole0

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Modesto, CA 7 recommendations manhole0 Member G.Fast



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We'll have to see how the speeds are in the real world, but it sounds somewhat promising. He's probably referring to future G.Fast upgrades.We'll have to see how the speeds are in the real world, but it sounds somewhat promising.

weaseled386

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Edgewater, FL 6 recommendations weaseled386 Member These guys... ... are pros at blowing smoke up everyone's rear.

kdwycha

join:2003-01-30

Ruskin, FL 6 recommendations kdwycha Member Really? It's 2016 and there is still excitement about DSL. The United States internet infrastructure is in real trouble. Bet we still hear about exciting DSL upgrades in 2026 while the rest of the world blazes ahead with fiber.

Anonf2b83

@hcs.net 5 recommendations Anonf2b83 Anon VDSL2 or G.fast I'm pretty sure bonded/vectored VDSL2 (17a or 30a profile) can achieve rates over 100 Mbps in ideal conditions (loop length is a factor). But assuming the conditions are ideal, they (the telco) can crank it up over 2 bonded copper pairs. This is of course assuming customers are less than 1500 feet away from a VRAD/RT and the quality of the copper is good. I don't understand why Frontier just doesn't expand the FiOS service that Verizon already put in. Fiber is the way to go and has a longer future than copper does.

tshirt

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Snohomish, WA 3 recommendations tshirt Premium Member The also promised upgrades when they took over the PNW part of verizon

Maybe some future generation will build a museum of the dark ages of telco internet. and very little noticeable progress, so far, but it only been 6-7 yearsMaybe some future generation will build a museum of the dark ages of telco internet.