Re: [CGUYS] Verizon Done with FIOS?

2011-10-26 Thread b_s-wilk
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

Re: [CGUYS] Verizon Done with FIOS?

2011-10-26 Thread mike
Yeah, the minute you do that Verizon sues the city for doing it. On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 10:28 AM, b_s-wilk b1sun...@yahoo.es wrote: Verizon may be finished with the main FIOS installation, but they're not doing the last mile or so. Do neighborhoods and small towns have to get their own

Re: [CGUYS] Verizon Done with FIOS?

2011-10-26 Thread John Duncan Yoyo
On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 1:51 PM, mike xha...@gmail.com wrote: Yeah, the minute you do that Verizon sues the city for doing it. This is where a skillful lawyer/politician makes Verizon build out FIOS in that area or get the hell out of the way. If they want to prevent a build out because they

Re: [CGUYS] Verizon Done with FIOS?

2011-10-25 Thread Mike Sloane
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

Re: [CGUYS] Verizon Done with FIOS?

2011-10-25 Thread mike
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

Re: [CGUYS] Verizon Done with FIOS?

2011-10-25 Thread Emil Volcheck
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