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:[email protected]] 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, <http://www.techdirt.com/article.php?sid=20100312/1855128547#c166> 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 ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** ************************************************************************* ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
