>From my understanding... No. The deal apparently isn't final because the company Verizon sold it to has a reputation of bad customer service, and the Verizon customer base they bought is 150% larger than their current customer base. Think of a minnow eating a shark in one gulp.
The sticking point to the deal is the customer service, last I heard. I'm off to Pycon! On Thu, 2010-02-18 at 09:18 -0500, Dale E Anglin wrote: > Verizon has already sold part of their FIOS operations off to another > company... I don't know if that will improve the customer service > or??? > > Dale Anglin > > > > From: > Rob Ludwick <[email protected]> > To: > Fort Wayne Linux Users Group > <[email protected]> > Date: > 02/17/2010 04:23 PM > Subject: > Re: [fwlug] Google gigabit access > in Fort Wayne > Sent by: > [email protected] > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > > > Or they just might buy out verizon out of their fiber. Verizon sure > doesn't want it... > > Don Pobanz <[email protected]> wrote: > > >Hi all, > > > >This sounds interesting. However, to my knowledge Fort Wayne does > not > >own much infrastructure that could be used for this. (I have only > lived > >in FW a year and a half so could be wrong). They don't have electric > >utilities like some municipalities nor cable TV. I don't know if the > >traffic signals are connected via fiber. > > > >I'm sure google would want fiber in place or if not in place, then > at > >least poles or conduit where fiber could be installed at a minimal > cost. > >Is there any chance that the city of Fort Wayne has that? > > > >Don Pobanz > >Former Municipality employee (working in communications) in Hastings > >Nebraska. > > > >On 2/17/2010 11:02 AM, MikeD (2) wrote: > >> Hello Luggers, > >> > >> Check this out: http://www.google.com/appserve/fiberrfi/ > >> > >> Don't you all thing that this would be great for Fort > Wayne?<weg> > >> We should see about getting the word out on this to the Fort > Wayne > >> Powers the Be and see if we can be one of the trials. > >> > >> > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Fwlug mailing list > >[email protected] > >http://fortwaynelug.org/mailman/listinfo/fwlug_fortwaynelug.org > _______________________________________________ > Fwlug mailing list > [email protected] > http://fortwaynelug.org/mailman/listinfo/fwlug_fortwaynelug.org > > _______________________________________________ > Fwlug mailing list > [email protected] > http://fortwaynelug.org/mailman/listinfo/fwlug_fortwaynelug.org _______________________________________________ Fwlug mailing list [email protected] http://fortwaynelug.org/mailman/listinfo/fwlug_fortwaynelug.org
