Qwest won't commit to Seattle fiber, doesn't want city to do it

Fiber isn’t coming anytime soon, according to Qwest CEO Dick Notebaert. That’s the answer Notebaert gave a Seattle Times reporter in a recent interview, and it looks as though it will echo throughout Qwest’s service region. Although the telecom has built some very small FTTP and FTTN networks for specific subdivisions, it has shown little interest in the kind of widescale deployment its larger brethren are undertaking.

Seattle is anxious to get fiber one way or another, and last year a city task force recommended it develop its own fiber network in order to remain competitive. Predictably, Qwest wasn’t too impressed. In fact, it was downright critical of the task force’s report.

Via Arstechnica