Qwest (
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Alert) Communications International expects its 2010 capital budget to be similar to 2009 even as it plans for more spending on fiber networks to support wireless services, Chief Technology Officer Pieter Poll told Reuters (
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Poll said some carriers are looking for backhaul network speed increases of as much as 35 times today's speeds. Poll said Qwest has had inquires from wireless carriers about backhaul upgrades for 7,500 of the 17,000 cell sites in its service territory.
The company does not anticipate major changes in its fiber-to-node build outs, though it is possible the new mobile backhaul fiber could accelerate residential deployments to an extent.
Qwest expects to have three million homes in its major metro areas upgraded for fiber access by the end of the year.
Gary Kim (News - Alert) is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of Gary’s articles, please visit his columnist page.Edited by
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