Cable Companies Facing Competition from Verizon FiOS

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.

Main complaints of cable customers include the size of the bandwidth. Caps were placed on connections due to sustained high usage over a few hours. Recently, cable companies have undone this, but customers have yet to notice. These caps were targeting people that were abusing their internet by using shareware software.

The problem affected many customers, and trying to get the cap removed took a lot of effort and time on behalf of cable subscribers. There were also issues with heavy internet usage in neighborhoods which affected customer's service, as well as issues with bad weather.

Bandwidth is not an issue with FIOS. The Fiber Optic networks of Verizon are almost limitless compared to what cable offers through their coaxial copper networks. Switching to FIOS eliminated the bandwidth problems for former cable companies.

Verizon fell behind with installation due to high demand, but the reliability has been for the most part, above average. The best part about the infrastructure being brand new is that there is little to no service interruption once the service is 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 This will cost cable companies a lot of money, but in the long run, maybe they can find recycling solutions to their outdated system.

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