Re: [CGUYS] Is Verizon giving up on building out FIOS?

[tjpa]

On Mar 17, 2010, at 3:59 PM, rleesimon wrote:

Isn't there something wrong here?


The market has spoken. But don't fret. You will have no time for TV  
and Internet. We are raising your insurance rates so you'll need a  
second job to pay for it.



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Re: [CGUYS] Is Verizon giving up on building out FIOS?

[rleesimon]

fios ...yeah, right!

Years ago a bunch of trucks came down our little private lane serving 10+
homes (now 12) and strung fiberoptic cable on the poles ...there it sits. We
are too far from the switching point to get DSL. After many years boasting
proudly that I had never been a cable customer, and after finding the
WalMart special got me exactly 2 digital channels off of my 40' tower with
antenna (being only 1h by car from Philadelphia and having had a whole bunch
of channels from NJ, PA, DE, and MD before the digital debacle), now we have
comcast internet (slow speed) and the cheapest TV (which is almost nothing).
I find this annoying when our town is 3.5 miles from the county seat where
FIOS is in place for all the inner city folks. 

Isn't there something wrong here?

-Original Message-
From: Roger D. Parish [mailto:rogerd.par...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2010 7:42 PM
Subject: Re: Is Verizon giving up on building out FIOS?

At 9:39 AM -0400 3/16/10, John Duncan Yoyo wrote:

>The article states that the bean counters are waiting for government to
pony
>up for further FIOS deployments.  If you don't have it yet you may be out
of
>luck.
>
>http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/So-Is-This-Where-Verizons-FiOS-Deploymen
t-Ends-107342
>http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100312/1855128547.shtml
>--

But in a comment to the TechDirt report, 

a Verizon spokesman said:

>by Bob Varettoni
>I am a spokesperson for Verizon. Just a few points: Verizon said it 
>would spend $23 billion for FiOS deployment through the end of this 
>year -- and we're meeting that commitment. That's about $22 billion 
>and change more than any other company in America will have actually 
>spent by the end of this year in bringing ultra-fast fiber-based 
>broadband directly to homes.
>
>We have additional commitments to build out FiOS in certain 
>jurisdictions beyond 2010 that we will also meet. Our focus now is 
>on making our FiOS network available for sale -- and selling FiOS 
>services! -- to all the homes we have passed (there's still 
>additional work to be done after a home is passed -- to provide TV, 
>for example, we need a local franchise).

-- 
Roger
Lovettsville, VA


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Re: [CGUYS] Is Verizon giving up on building out FIOS?

[Roger D. Parish]

At 9:39 AM -0400 3/16/10, John Duncan Yoyo wrote:


The article states that the bean counters are waiting for government to pony
up for further FIOS deployments.  If you don't have it yet you may be out of
luck.

http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/So-Is-This-Where-Verizons-FiOS-Deployment-Ends-107342
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100312/1855128547.shtml
--


But in a comment to the TechDirt report, 


a Verizon spokesman said:


by Bob Varettoni
I am a spokesperson for Verizon. Just a few points: Verizon said it 
would spend $23 billion for FiOS deployment through the end of this 
year -- and we're meeting that commitment. That's about $22 billion 
and change more than any other company in America will have actually 
spent by the end of this year in bringing ultra-fast fiber-based 
broadband directly to homes.


We have additional commitments to build out FiOS in certain 
jurisdictions beyond 2010 that we will also meet. Our focus now is 
on making our FiOS network available for sale -- and selling FiOS 
services! -- to all the homes we have passed (there's still 
additional work to be done after a home is passed -- to provide TV, 
for example, we need a local franchise).


--
Roger
Lovettsville, VA


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[CGUYS] Is Verizon giving up on building out FIOS?

[John Duncan Yoyo]

The article states that the bean counters are waiting for government to pony
up for further FIOS deployments.  If you don't have it yet you may be out of
luck.

http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/So-Is-This-Where-Verizons-FiOS-Deployment-Ends-107342
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100312/1855128547.shtml
-- 
John Duncan Yoyo
---o)


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