Oh what a tangled web corporations weave.  Comcast doesn’t care for Verizon and Verison doesn’t care for it.  Neither of those two care for the existence of Cox cable, Time Warner or Charter.  Yet each must deal with the existence of the others.

I’m not going to help the situation either.  Verizon and Comcast are huge on the east coast and have started invading at least some of the west coast.  The other companies are like tiny fleas, in my opinion.

In my area there is only Comcast and Verizon, that’s it.  If you don’t like it you’ll have to leave the state, maybe even the eastern seaboard.

The competition between Comcast and Verizon is the most fierce with Comcast saying that it has a larger fiber network than Verizon.  That’s not exactly the truth.

Comcast says its ad refers to the fact that the company has the largest residential fiber network with 125,000 miles of cable.  That doesn’t mean that fiber is running to each and every home on the service.  In many cases the fiber will eventually link up with copper co-ax cables which carries the signal to your home.

Verizon and its FiOS network uses fiber all the way right to your home but it also lies about the capabilities.  It said that the signals reaching homes on the FiOS network were not compressed only they are.

All cable providers used compressed signals, all.  However, its the level of encryption that matters.  Verizon receives a compressed data stream from the network and sends it to your home.  It does not compress the signal any more than that.

Some cable providers receive the compressed signal and use further compression on it thus reducing the quality.   Comcast has been known to do this in some cases.

Yahoo News mentions what some other companies like Cox, Time Warner and Charter have done in ads poking fun at Comcast and Verizon.  No one really cares.  The main battle here is between Comcast and Verizon.  It won’t be going away any time soon.

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Entry was posted on Monday, June 23rd, 2008 at 5:48 pm under Opinion, Technology, Uncategorized.

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