Interview: NSN's Sue Spradley on LightSquared's Wholesale Mobile Data Paradigm by Sue Spradley  Home         Topics: Main | DSL | Cable | FTTH  | GPON | VDSL2 | DOCSIS 3.0 | IPTV | Set-top Boxes  | Encoders  | Content   | Regulatory Issues  |  Links & Resources | Archive   | Europe  |    Verizon Sees FTTP Connection Costs at $715 in 2006, Down from $1,200 Speaking at an investors' conference in New York, Verizon's Vice Chairman and President Lawrence T. Babbio Jr. said the company has targeted costs of $890 in 2006 to pass a home or business with FTTP. This cost, which includes a blend of aerial and underground deployment, had averaged $1,400 at the start of 2005. Babbio said that at the beginning of 2005 Verizon's fiber network was passing an average of 100,000 premises per month, and by the end of the year it was passing an average of 235,000 premises per month, as the deployment ramped up to its current and ongoing run rate. As the network deployment continues to scale up, the same trend applies to costs to connect a premises, Babbio noted. In January 2005 Verizon's connection costs averaged $1,200, and the goal in 2006 is $715. Some other highlights of the presentation: Verizon expects the new fiber network to dramatically reduce the costs in outside plant maintenance by at least 40% , with opportunities for further cost reductions in the future. Most new FiOS data customers are migrating from dial-up services or are switching from cable offerings. Churn rates for FiOS data customers are below churn rates for other broadband customers. Verizon expects to build out a network capable of delivering new FiOS TV services to a total of from 3 million to 4 million premises by year-end 2006. In its first 60 days, Verizon Business has begun migrating off-network voice and Internet protocol traffic on to Verizon's networks, generating cost synergies. Regarding the previously announced workforce reduction in Verizon Business of 7,000 employees over three years, approximately 3,500 of those reductions will occur in 2006, on a base of 35,000 employees. http://www.verizon.com 28-Feb-06     No video on this topic yet.. contact us to present your views. Recent Last Mile News BT Employs "SmartWater" Invisible Paint to Deter Cable Theft 7/26/2010 Qwest Launches Heavy-Duty Internet -- 40 Mbps 7/22/2010 Alcatel-Lucent Wins PON Contracts with China Mobile and China Telecom 7/21/2010 Netflix Reaches 15 Million Subscribers as Streaming Grows 7/21/2010 Verizon Global Wholesale Expands its White-Label Offerings 7/21/2010 ZyXEL's VDSL Products Gain IPv6 Phase II Certification 7/21/2010 Covad Selects ADTRAN Total Access 5000 7/19/2010 Calix E7 Reaches 100 Customer Milestone 7/14/2010 Harmonic Milestone: One Million QAMs Shipped 7/13/2010 Slic Selects Occam for GPON Deployment 7/13/2010 ADTRAN Supplies Total Access 5000 in Alaska 7/7/2010 Calix Cites Broadband Stimulus Boom 7/7/2010 Time Warner Cable 4G Mobile Hotspot 7/6/2010 Hong Kong Broadband Offers Symmetric 1 Gbps for US$26/Month 7/6/2010 BT Openreach Selects ECI Telecom for Fiber Access 7/6/2010 > More news...   Search  this site   Search the Web   Get Your Column Published Interview: NSN's Sue Spradley on LightSquared's Wholesale Mobile Data Paradigm by Sue Spradley Mobile Backhaul Transition Requires New Testing by Joe Zeto Cybersecurity Requires Public/Private Coalition by Greg Oslan A Rethinking of Cloud Services and Network Architecture by Jim Theodoras Delivering Scalable Video Solutions <br><i> Advantages of SVC-Optimized QoS</i> by Andy Singleton Does Network Neutrality Impact DPI? by James Brear