And yet another open letter to Click! Network management:
One of your people called me a few days ago to talk about DOCSIS 3.0
I’m sorry, I don’t recall his name.
He was under the strong impression Comcast just rolled out DOCSIS 3.0 here in Tacoma in December 2009.
WRONG.
As I told the guy, Comcast rolled out DOCSIS 3.0 here in the Seattle Tacoma area slightly over a year ago – mid-December 2008. Check out this thread on dslreports.com and please note the posts’ date: DOCSIS 3.0 available in Tacoma
Yes, that’s right: Comcast rolled out DOCSIS 3.0 in Tacoma in mid-December, 2008. The first post in the thread is dated 12-19-2008.
And you guys thought the roll-out had just happened? Seriously? And according to what the guy told me, you’re just now getting ready to ask the city council for money to build-out a DOCSIS 3.0 system?
This really disturbs me.
How on earth could you people have missed a major market event such as that?
The guy I talked to told me that the vast majority of your customers are at the Res 1 level, so that was another reason Click saw no real incentive to upgrade. Well duh! You ever suppose the reason all your customers are at Res 1 is because the other products are so inferior that anyone interested in real bandwidth and real value will go to Comcast?