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Overbuild: The New RBOC Advanced Access Architecture Strategy?
Market Study
Published: January 2009
Pages: For full details, please email keithw@cmsinfo.com
Tables: 104
From: GBP 1092.00 Buy Now!
Research from: Information Gatekeepers Inc.
Sector: Broadband & Fixed
As you read this, Verizon is placing fiber cable for Advanced Access Architecture (FiOS) in AT&T franchise areas in north Texas. They expect to start offering service in these areas in direct competition with existing cable companies and AT&T late in 2008. This is probably the first time that the RBOCs have directly competed with each other in residential services. It may sound a note that can drastically change the industry.
In June 2008 the Texas PUC issued an order approving Verizon’s request to extend its “State-issued Certificate of Franchise Authority” to 12 new areas immediately outside Verizon’s Texas franchise and inside AT&T’s franchise. Shortly thereafter, they began extending fiber from their existing FiOS-equipped central offices to relatively nearby areas in these newly acquired franchise areas.
In recognition of the possible overriding importance of this development, Information Gatekeepers Inc. (IGI) has commissioned Clif Holliday to expand their group of reports on Advanced Access Architectures to include a new report on this overbuild activity. The new report, which will be out before the end of the year, is entitled "Overbuild: The New RBOC Advanced Access Architecture Strategy?"
Holliday commented, “It happens that this overbuild activity is taking place in my home town of Colleyville, Texas (and elsewhere). All I have to do is look out my office window to see what may be the biggest change in residential telecommunications since the Carterphone decision. It is interesting that, although Verizon still refers to this as an ‘experiment,’ they have already developed in-house nomenclature ‘NOOF’ – Near Out-of-Franchise – for the activity. Our new report will look at the possible ramifications of this overbuild; the strategic drivers of overbuild; who will benefit, and who will be harmed; the likely telecommunication company winners and losers; areas of the country that may be candida tes for overbuilding; and the positioning elements that could make this a nationwide phenomenon.”
Information Gatekeepers’ president, Dr. Paul Polishuk, added, “IGI has long recognized the Advanced Access Architecture thrusts of the major U.S. carriers as among the most important events in telecommunications history. As such, IGI has been periodically issuing major reports on the FTTP/FTTN activities of the RBOCs since they began in 2003. Earlier this year, we issued ‘Advanced Access Architectures – 2008: AT&T, Verizon, and Qwest Plans and Forecasts,’ the most comprehensive of our reports on this subject. In recognition of the wide interest and deep importance of the FTTP/FTTN phenomena, we are now issuing a series of reports that focus on narrower aspects of Advanced Access Architectures.”