Friday, June 10, 2005
BellSouth's IPTV strategy may pay off | CNET News.com
BellSouth's IPTV strategy may pay off | CNET News.com: "A decade-old bet on fiber-optic cables could end up paying big dividends for BellSouth.
While other local telephone carriers waited until regulatory issues were ironed out before deploying fiber into homes, BellSouth plowed ahead and deployed more than 5.2 million miles of fiber. It was considered a big risk at the time, because regulators could have forced the company to share the network it was building."
While other local telephone carriers waited until regulatory issues were ironed out before deploying fiber into homes, BellSouth plowed ahead and deployed more than 5.2 million miles of fiber. It was considered a big risk at the time, because regulators could have forced the company to share the network it was building."
