Verizon To Use New Tech With Old Cables

Ant wrote to mention a ZDNet article about a new initive to get modern high-speed net access into homes utilizing old coaxial cable lines. Right now Verizon digs up streets and lays out expensive fiber to get homes online, but new tech may let them accomplish that task for much less hassle and expense. From the article: "Later this year, it plans to use new technology from the Multimedia over Coax Alliance (MoCA) , an industry group that promotes using coaxial cable installed for cable TV to transmit broadband around the home. The organization says that its technology supports speeds up to 270 megabits per second. Because most homes already have coaxial cable installed in several rooms, Verizon can significantly reduce its Fios installation costs by using existing cabling to connect home computers to its broadband service."

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is this another Verizon ad?

[Zweideutig]

Is this another one like all the other Verizon ads I'm getting because I am using the Slashdot free day pass? Or is this an article?

Wireless is the future

[Anonymous Coward]

I bet you anything within 10 years, all our data access will be wireless whether its wifi, wimax, or whatever the new standard is that they come out with. You will get your cell phone service, high speed internet, and maybe even tv all from the same tower network. Who cares about what wires are already run or will need to be run, when wireless access is the future of data.