On 05/08/2013 05:08 PM, Richard Pieri wrote:
Matthew Gillen wrote:
You can buy internet service without getting TV. They are an ISP. That
is how they sell it.
FiOS is a bundled residential service competing directly with various
cable TV/broadband providers like Comcast and Cox. THIS is how VZ sells it.
Look at the technology. Each fiber to the premises carries three
wavelengths of IR light. Each of these three "bands" correspond to one
of the three bundled services: television, telephone, IP traffic. The
technology is designed to carry a bundled broadband service package.
VZ also sells fiber IP services to businesses. This is under the
"Business FiOS Internet" brand name but it sometimes isn't FiOS
technology; it's traditional fiber IP networking. You can't get this in
a residential deployment because it's a different technology at the
endpoints.
I think what is important is not how they market it, but how they
package (maybe define is a better term) it to the regulators. From my
standpoint their TV service is not as good as Comcast and DirecTV. My
son-in=-law lives in Buffalo where he has a choice of FIOS and Charter
for ISP service. No competition, FIOS wins, but they hated the TV
service, so they changed their contract and got DirecTV. (When I refer
to TV service, it is the number of channels, the guide, and the
on-demand offering). My son-in-law is an IT professional who works for
the Federal Public Defenders office.
The legal problem is that the laws are archaic and have not really
caught up to the technology. Every city and town wants a piece of the
action, but in reality these services should be regulated both at the
state and federal level.
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