We have finally decided to move to Verizon FIOS. Verizon has
been pushing it hard in my area, even going so far as to send
door-to-door salespeople, which ordinarily ups my sales resistance,
but inthis case I have finally been persuaded.
Verizon is offering to replace our landline, cable and internet service
for about as much as we are paying Comcast for our cable and
internet, so we will essentially be saving the cost of our home phone
service. Furthermore, if we merge our cell phone bill (already with
Verizon) with the FIOS bill, they have promised to take 20% off that.
We can pay an extra $5/month to lock in these rates for two years,
and will have 90 days to rescind service without penalty. The basic
cable lineup we will get is also better than what comcast provides.
Even if there turn out to be a few small gotchas in the details, I am
fed up with Comcast's service. They can't even properly manage
their core competency as a cable provider properly. I see pixellation
on the digital channels daily. Also, they can't seem to grasp the fact
that people like to watch particular channels, so they routinely move
channels around (usually swapping analogue to digital in order to
gain bandwidth) and neglect to tell anyone where they have moved.
They could use their cable box messaging for this purpose, but
instead only use it for promotions. As for the internet service,
it has gotten very slow lately, and I can't listen to any internet
streaming without lots of buffering. I have gone through this before,
and I am sure that it is because the addition of new customers
to our local node have overloaded it and things will get better when
Comcast gets around to putting in some new hardware, but as Tom
has pointed out, their service on the other end with email etc.
is likewise terrible.
David
On Jun 26, 2008, at 12:00 AM, COMPUTERGUYS-L automatic digest system
wrote:
Subject: Re: Cable Fights FIOS with Lies
I like the last bit about Verizon running misleading ads regarding
compressed and uncompressed video.
Personally I don't care if they lay kewpie dolls from end to end, I
care
about the end result and cost.
Mike
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