Re: fairpoint fiber rates?
On Sep 15, 2008, at 22:34, Dan Miller wrote: I've heard many rumors that Fairpoint is rolling out their own TV. For some reason that do what verizon is doing with TV, but they are looking into TV over IP. Yeah, that's their primary revenue model, IPTV over DSL, which is why their DSL extension plans for rural areas are believable. They have it deployed in their other geographic regions. This is a year and a half old, but the best I know to date: http://blog.bfccomputing.com/articles/2007/02/21/fairpoint-and- gcedc-at-uvcia-2006-02-21 -Bill - Bill McGonigle, Owner Work: 603.448.4440 BFC Computing, LLC Home: 603.448.1668 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: 603.252.2606 http://www.bfccomputing.com/Page: 603.442.1833 Blog: http://blog.bfccomputing.com/ VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: fairpoint fiber rates?
Bruce Labitt wrote: Just got a Fairpoint flyer for fiber. (Nice alliteration.) Anyone got an idea on how much this actually costs? All they give you is a phone number to call. Likewise on their website. Does the rate vary by location? Why won't they post it? The 'evil' Comcast posts theirs. My DSL is a bit slow for my taste nowadays. I'd call, but I'm wary of being talked into something I really would like but shouldn't buy because of the monthly rate. So does anyone happen to know, and would you share the rates? I would hope there are only 4 rates (5/2, 15/2, 15/15, and 30/15). If it matters, I live in Nashua. Thanks -Bruce Hello Bruce I just went down this path less than a month ago. Verizon sold it's business in NH ME VT to Fairpoint. Everything but cell phones. The deal was finalized recently. Fairpoint does not offer FIOS as part of it's product offerings at all as of 3 weeks ago. The existing Verizon FIOS customers still have it, but no new customers and no new fiber is being installed at this time. Fairpoint is spending some big bucks - as per the buy out agreement contract with the NHPUC in which they have to spend 50M - but so far it is to update and fix old rusting and abandoned Versizon stuff. There is no information or eta as to if/when fios will be available again through Fairpoint. You can check again by calling them. The sales rep I spoke to was not pushy. What Fairpoint has is a bundled service is phone over copper, DSL, and Direct TV. The package is cheaper than Comcast by a fairly significant margin depending n the hardware you get for TV. In my case $40+ per month. The package pricing, ie getting all 3 from one provider, is the only way it makes financial sense because if you split the services you lose the discount on both sides. Fairpoint's database shows my home as 0 miles from the CO. There is a fiber terminal a block away. I could get 3M DSL. They can tell you this with a phone call. Without the fiber terminal, my DSL speed would suck wet bounty paper towels. Here's where it gets bad. I ordered the bundle and found out the hard way that I cannot get a line of site to the satellites (plural) for Direct TV so Comcast still has me by the gonads. Fairpoint rolled the truck to cut my phone over to them before rolling the Direct TV truck and left me with a big problem. I had to cut my phone back to Comcast before being eligible for their bundle again. Comcast sent me to Fairpoint to start the work order process and Fairpoint sent me to Comcast to do the same. Eventually a Fairpoint rep started a con call with Comcast to get them to put in the work order. This took a day of my time to get straightened out and 2 weeks for Comcast to get going again - They dropped the ball repeatedly. (and sent out a contractor that installed the wrong DVR and had to come back again) Comcast also refused to waive the phone installation fee to cut the phone back even though I had been a Comcast customer for 8 years and was ordering a package to the tune of $2,000+ per year. It took hours of my time to get the fee waived by someone with half a brain. A rare find at Comcast. Short story - Fairpoint will not roll a truck to check your line of sight without an order. Fairpoint will not roll the Direct TV truck to check line of sight with an order until your phone is on Verizon copper. This is part of their contract with Direct TV. The catch-22 is very very bad. Proceed cautiously ;) Signed, -Not drinking the Comcast kool-aid. PS If Fairpoint starts offering FIOS again I'd go for it in a second and let Comcast fudge their todlywankers, ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/ ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: fairpoint fiber rates?
Frank DiPrete wrote: PS If Fairpoint starts offering FIOS again I'd go for it in a second and let Comcast fudge their todlywankers, The offer for fiber came in the form of a mass mailing direct from Fairpoint. They have set up a website www.fairpointfast.com for it. I guess I'll call and find out the deal for it. I just hope to avoid the nightmare stuff... -Bruce ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
RE: fairpoint fiber rates?
I would simply LOVE to have the pain of paying $45 a month for internet service - currently my only option is Comcast, and they charge $61.80. -Michael Pelletier. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bruce Labitt If the rate above is still valid then the rate per month is (9/12)*44.95 = $33.71, which isn't too bad. Just at the threshold of pain... Actually when I first signed up for DSL it was for $35/month so it really isn't too bad. I wonder why they don't publish their rates? Are they playing cat mouse with their competition? ___ ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: fairpoint fiber rates?
Michael Pelletier wrote: I would simply LOVE to have the pain of paying $45 a month for internet service - currently my only option is Comcast, and they charge $61.80. -Michael Pelletier. amen brother. Add hd tv over fiber and unlimited phone to a package price at a savings of $540 per year over comcast to the mix and you're really talking. .. I wonder of fairpoint support knows how to spell tcp/ip -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bruce Labitt If the rate above is still valid then the rate per month is (9/12)*44.95 = $33.71, which isn't too bad. Just at the threshold of pain... Actually when I first signed up for DSL it was for $35/month so it really isn't too bad. I wonder why they don't publish their rates? Are they playing cat mouse with their competition? ___ ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/ ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
fairpoint fiber rates?
Just got a Fairpoint flyer for fiber. (Nice alliteration.) Anyone got an idea on how much this actually costs? All they give you is a phone number to call. Likewise on their website. Does the rate vary by location? Why won't they post it? The 'evil' Comcast posts theirs. My DSL is a bit slow for my taste nowadays. I'd call, but I'm wary of being talked into something I really would like but shouldn't buy because of the monthly rate. So does anyone happen to know, and would you share the rates? I would hope there are only 4 rates (5/2, 15/2, 15/15, and 30/15). If it matters, I live in Nashua. Thanks -Bruce ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: fairpoint fiber rates?
The rates are what you stated (or pretty close to that). The only price I know is 15/2 which I will be getting this weekend. Its around $55 or so. I will let you know after this weekend. Dan ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: fairpoint fiber rates?
Tom Engle wrote: On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 9:02 PM, Bruce Labitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just got a Fairpoint flyer for fiber. (Nice alliteration.) Anyone got an idea on how much this actually costs? All they give you is a phone number to call. Likewise on their website. Does the rate vary by location? Why won't they post it? The 'evil' Comcast posts theirs. My DSL is a bit slow for my taste nowadays. I'd call, but I'm wary of being talked into something I really would like but shouldn't buy because of the monthly rate. So does anyone happen to know, and would you share the rates? I would hope there are only 4 rates (5/2, 15/2, 15/15, and 30/15). If it matters, I live in Nashua. I have 15/2 fiber in Nashua for exactly $44.95 per month. I signed up back when it was still Verizon, so I can't say whether Fairpoint is still offering it to new users at that price, but they haven't upped the price on me yet. Tom Thanks Tom. Right now, they are offering 3 months free (sure - it isn't really free, it is just a discount) if I sign up for a year. I just didn't know what the rate actually was. Does Fairpoint force you into some combo with phone service? Right now I only have local service enabled so we have a landline for DSL and around town service. Long distance is on our cell phones since it is cheaper. Have you had many interruptions on fiber? If the rate above is still valid then the rate per month is (9/12)*44.95 = $33.71, which isn't too bad. Just at the threshold of pain... Actually when I first signed up for DSL it was for $35/month so it really isn't too bad. I wonder why they don't publish their rates? Are they playing cat mouse with their competition? ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: fairpoint fiber rates?
On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 9:52 PM, Bruce Labitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wonder why they don't publish their rates? Back when ATT was the one and only phone company, It was standard practice to treat everything as if it was more secret than nuclear launch codes. Remember, they owned the phones; we just rented them. Most modern baby and big bells inherited that mindset, and many of them haven't gotten over that habit. The same with the telephone equipment manufactures that spun off the Bell System (Avaya, Nortel, etc.). There may be other reasons that help them keep the habit, but inertia alone would suffice. -- Ben ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: fairpoint fiber rates?
On Sep 15, 2008, at 22:09, Ben Scott wrote: There may be other reasons that help them keep the habit, but inertia alone would suffice. It's possible that since Fairpoint is currently leasing Verizon support systems, such as the website, they're doing as little as possible while they build their own. That was supposed to be done this month, IIRC, but slipped. -Bill - Bill McGonigle, Owner Work: 603.448.4440 BFC Computing, LLC Home: 603.448.1668 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: 603.252.2606 http://www.bfccomputing.com/Page: 603.442.1833 Blog: http://blog.bfccomputing.com/ VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: fairpoint fiber rates?
It's possible that since Fairpoint is currently leasing Verizon support systems, such as the website, they're doing as little as possible while they build their own. That was supposed to be done this month, IIRC, but slipped. I've heard many rumors that Fairpoint is rolling out their own TV. For some reason that do what verizon is doing with TV, but they are looking into TV over IP. I've heard that this is supposed to be out in about 5 months or so. Dan ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
