BW: Verizon's Gutsy Bet

"Business Week: Verizon's Gutsy Bet. 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."

[via Tomalak's Realm]

Verizon CEO quote from the article: "The cable industry focuses on entertainment and games. The broadband industry will focus on education, health care, financial services, and essential government services," he says. "I think over the next five to 10 years, you will see five, six, seven [segments of the economy] reordering the way they think about providing services."