At Verizon's earnings call, their CFO, Fran Shammo, sort of put a
stake through the heart of FIOS. This article on DSL Reports
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Verizon-Confirms-New-Home-LTE-Service-116721?nocomment=1
summarizes thus:
Verizon executives had been pretending they were pausing
That is disturbing to me - I am in a copper only DSL area of Verizon's
service. I was hoping to eventually get FIOS, as no cable vendor serves
my area. Now I guess I will have to hope that LTE comes to my DirectTV
eventually or that a cable company decides to serve this area. I am
beginning to
Nice to know all that money these guys got in tax breaks and incentives
went...nowhere. Makes me that much happier when I hear various senators
proclaim 'we have plenty of competition' in regards to the desired
tmobile/ATT merger. Yeah. Right.
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 2:39 PM, Mike Sloane
Mike,
It's worth noting that the new FCC net neutrality
rules apply to wired connections (like FiOS) but
not wireless connections (like LTE).
--Emil
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 17:39, Mike Sloane mikeslo...@verizon.net wrote:
That is disturbing to me - I am in a copper only DSL area of Verizon's
