<p dir="ltr">It could very well have been fiber to the neighborhood, then ethernet over copper in the last mile, or a short range, high speed wireless.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 2, 2015 3:40 PM, "Alex Carver" <<a href="mailto:agcarver%2Bale@acarver.net">agcarver+ale@acarver.net</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 2015-01-02 12:12, James Sumners wrote:<br>
> On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 2:49 PM, Michael H. Warfield <<a href="mailto:mhw@wittsend.com">mhw@wittsend.com</a>><br>
> wrote:<br>
><br>
>> I don't recall seeing anything in the news recommending<br>
>> recording every single support call you make with AT&T but it seems to<br>
>> be the standing rave with Comcast. I also haven't seen too many (any?)<br>
>> support call fails with AT&T going viral like they are with Comcast<br>
>> happening with too frequent regularity.<br>
>><br>
><br>
> Because everyone gave up long ago on AT&T and their shenanigans.<br>
><br>
> A couple months ago an AT&T rep knocked on my door to tell me they had<br>
> "just run fiber to my neighborhood". I had to flat out tell her that's<br>
> bullshit. 1) There had been zero work by AT&T happening in my neighborhood.<br>
> 2) There isn't any new equipment in the air or any newly covered trenches<br>
> on the ground. Comcast lies, but AT&T had the audacity to knock on my door<br>
> and lie to my face.<br>
><br>
<br>
That was probably a partial truth and partial lie. In one of the two<br>
AT&T neighborhoods I was in the sales rep said the same thing and I had<br>
the same observation as you: no trenches, no equipment, etc. I talked<br>
to one of their linemen later during a servicing call. The reality was<br>
the fiber had been there for a while but was dark. The "just ran fiber"<br>
meant they had just added the VRADs inside the street box, lit up the<br>
preexisting dark fibers and now had Uverse in the neighborhood. The<br>
sales droids don't understand the technical and just spout whatever<br>
sounds most impressive. For example, the one that came to my door asked<br>
how many computers I'd be using and I told her seventeen. She blinked<br>
and yet still asked if I wanted to have a third party tech (one of their<br>
contracted companies, not the lineman) come out to "help install and<br>
configure" my network.<br>
<br>
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