One major factor you have to consider for Verizon and FIOs is the union problem. Verizon had established specialized teams to deploy fiber and were moving along at or ahead of schedule and budgets. The teams would go to the new areas and stay to get the work done. Then the union stepped up and filed grievances stating it was taking work away from the local guys. Short story is the union won out, now they have to deploy with people who have no incentive to hurry up and get the work done so they can go back home to their families. I think this is why you have seen them slow down. The union is the most counterproductive aspect of Verizon, even the employees who are non-union know this. The wireless division refuses to unionize, that should tell you something.....
Thank You, Brian Webster www.wirelessmapping.com www.Broadband-Mapping.com -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Fred Goldstein Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2011 4:27 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Verizon wants a piece of our pie At 10/27/2011 03:10 PM, Mike Hammett wrote: >It makes it easier to increase your penetration percentage when you >sell off what you don't intend on putting fiber in. Worse. They sold off what they could of that plant where they didn't intend to put in fiber. But they couldn't sell it all. So they're going to nurse the old copper plant along for the foreseeable future. In some areas it'll be all they have; in other areas, where there is FiOS, its penetration isn't all that high anyway. -- Fred Goldstein k1io fgoldstein "at" ionary.com ionary Consulting http://www.ionary.com/ +1 617 795 2701 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
