{"id":1629,"date":"2003-07-26T12:15:34","date_gmt":"2003-07-26T19:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2003\/07\/real-stuff\/"},"modified":"2003-07-26T12:15:34","modified_gmt":"2003-07-26T19:15:34","slug":"real-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2003\/07\/26\/real-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"Real stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tVerizon&#8217;s acting like the Internet bubble never burst, according this article in <a title=\"BW Online | August 4, 2003 | Verizon's Gutsy Bet\" href=\"http:\/\/businessweek.com\/magazine\/content\/03_31\/b3844001_mz001.htm\">Bidness Week<\/a> that was linked over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reason.com\/hitandrun\/002272.shtml#002272\">Hit and Run:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;When you&#8217;re the market leader,&#8221; says Seidenberg, &#8220;part of your responsibility is to reinvent the market.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>At the heart of this reinvention is the most ambitious deployment of new telecom technology in years. Verizon plans to roll out fiber-optic connections to every home and business in its 29-state territory over the next 10 to 15 years, a project that might reasonably be compared with the construction of the Roman aqueducts. It will cost $20 billion to $40 billion, depending on how fast equipment prices fall, and allow the lightning-fast transmission of everything from regular old phone service to high-definition TV. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>No <a href=\"http:\/\/doc.weblogs.com\/2003\/07\/25#savings\">&#8220;World of Hippies&#8221;<\/a> propaganda, just the facts.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Verizon&#8217;s acting like the Internet bubble never burst, according this article in Bidness Week that was linked over at Hit and Run: &#8220;When you&#8217;re the market leader,&#8221; says Seidenberg, &#8220;part of your responsibility is to reinvent the market.&#8221; At the heart of this reinvention is the most ambitious deployment of new telecom technology in years. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2003\/07\/26\/real-stuff\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Real stuff&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comp"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-qh","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}