Does Verizon Cable Deal Spell Death of FiOS Expansion?

Verizon’s cable deals squashed hopes that cable carriers’ purchases of wireless spectrum would lead to more competition against the dominant players, AT&T and Verizon Wireless. And it puts in doubt whether FiOS will ever be a serious competitor to cable, reducing the likelihood that video transmitted over broadband could break up cable’s regional oligopolies.

. I only have 5Mbps upload. I uploaded low res to print 5x7s and the prints from full, high res files were indistinguishable from those produced with low res uploads.The average home user needs more download, as the average home user is more of a consumer of content or rather than a producer. And with new compression research even full HD video can be transmitted over low bandwidth connections with little degradation in quality.

Gig in a few minutes

iPhone 4S can pump out a gig in a few minutes. Throw that on YouTube, and you've got a use for that upload. Add online backup and Dropbox, and that's a lot of data being moved.

I wonder if Comcast will be in the wireless phone business someday...Hopefully not, because I think "Xfinity Wireless" would fail miserably.