I’m just trying to understand the phenomenon.

Here in the South Bay area, there are a very significant number of medium- and high-rise new apartment and condominium buildings, with 100+ units per building (i.e. per webpass.net’s pricing, they’d offer free building hookup), already having centralised Cat5e or even Cat6, yet there are basically no telecoms who’d steps up and offer any kind of VDSL or Ethernet connectivity at all. Why?

Heck, it seems like the community I’m in right now, is just about the only one that even has AT&T U-verse, thanks the building being pre-glassed with fibreoptics! Residents in most of these other new (2005+) and even newer (2010+) buildings would have to suffice themselves with either Comcast or xDSL from the CO! Seriously? Even AT&T can’t seem to collect their guts and put up a node within the 250 unit buildings, and offer outstanding VDSL2 experience. Why? Where if not within these high-rises (Skyline at Tamien Station, Axis San Jose, The 88 SJ, 360 Residences etc) could the population density be utilised to the fullest extent for the best VDSL results?

Why is noone stepping up? Webpass.net in San Francisco and Paxio.net in Santa Clara are about the only providers I have found so far that even offer this kind of service in principle (both happen to offer residential unlimited symmetric 100/100 under 100$, which is essentially what we’re after here). Both seem reasonably sound, stable and mature, yet there are still thousands of people in the Bay Area living in brand-new buildings with internet connections slower than you can have just about all across the world, including Eastern Europe and South Korea. What’s going on? Why’s noone stepping in? Why not even the most popular CLEC/DLEC in the area, Sonic.net?

In my search, I’m still yet to personally stumble across a building here in the South Bay that’d have Cat5e utilised! I mean, I do have the moral right, if not even an outright obligation, to be surprised here, right? (-:

http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r26345062-Cat5e-in-Bay-Area-large-new-res-buildings-left-unused-