| FIOS wins! "upstart" competitors??? LMFAO
Verizon is not upstart. |
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Beazle3
join:2008-11-25
Greenville, MI | funny instead of spending the $50 million on their infrastructure so they would not have lost the customers in the first place. |
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ke4pymPremium
join:2004-07-24
Charlotte, NC Reviews:
 ·VOIPo
 ·Verizon Broadban..
 ·RoadRunner Cable
·Northland Cable ..
| $50 million better spent *On doing away with SDV.
*Fixing their POS DVR's
*Upping the bitrate so the picture quality is better
*Fixing their web sites so they run faster and are able to schedule recordings quicker.
*Not having 19 versions on 23 different channels of the same channel.
I'm sure I can think of more. |
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kxrm
join:2002-07-18
Fort Worth, TX | Fundamentally different? quote:
We, as a company, are fundamentally different and better than we were a few years ago when these upstart competitors started coming in,
Really? In what way are they fundamentally different? |
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 vangoateePool's ClosedPremium
join:2001-02-06
Newark, OH | Too expensive How about LOWERING YOUR PRICES? |
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 swintecPremium,VIP
join:2003-12-19
Alfred, ME
kudos:4
 ·RapidVPS
·Sprint Mobile Br..
·VoicePulse
·RoadRunner Cable
| reply to ke4pym
Re: $50 million better spent said by ke4pym:*On doing away with SDV.
SDV is great as far as what I have experienced. What dont you like about it?
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| reply to Beazle3
Re: funny Exactly 50 MILLION on ad campaign, should be out in the field upgrading lines and equipment and these old moto dvrs absolutely horrible. |
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| reply to vangoatee
Re: Too expensive I'll agree with that one.
If they have to ... offer a 'ESPN free' service to save money (put it in a tier) |
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| reply to vangoatee
Think you'd have better luck, trying to take a dead zebra carcass from a group of lionesses.  |
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 IowaCowboyWant to go back to IowaPremium
join:2010-10-16
Springfield, MA
·Comcast
·Verizon Broadban..
| I would welcome Time Warner into my home I wish Comcast would sell their systems in Western Mass to Time Warner. My grandma has Time Warner and while they might not have the latest technology, they have better support. My grandma lives in Biddeford and their call center is 20 minutes away in Portland. And they have a local support number instead of a national number.
The reps also have TV sets at their desks so they can tell if its an issue with network programming or the cable signal. I know because I've called to troubleshoot grandma's TV. Try getting that level of support from Comcast, they are a nightmare to deal with where you ask two different employees the same question and you get two different answers. I wish I would have known when the franchising agreement for Comcast in our area was up for renewal because I would have liked to have gone to the hearings and demanded language that required that they maintain a local direct dial number with a local call center located in Springfield along with minimum standards for customer service. Other jurisdictions have this requirement. |
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 ·Verizon FiOS
·AT&T Wireless Br..
1 edit | lol I switched from TWC , to fios the first day it was avaliable at my place , the day I called Time Warner the rep for at leas 10 minutes tried to offer me deals and so on.. I was on 30/5 plan provisioned for 50/5 without paying extra so that was 60$ , with Verizon I pay 84.99 no contract and already got the 100$ gift card for 75/35 +TV 210 channels I believie and the net is (which in reality is 84/39).
After all that time I got about 4-5 letters from time warner telling me to come back for them, I think it was TV+Turbo internet (20/2) for 99.99$ not sure.
There is no way I am coming back to them... |
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 jimkPremium
join:2006-04-15
Raleigh, NC
·RoadRunner Cable
·voip.ms
| reply to swintec
Re: $50 million better spent said by swintec:said by ke4pym:*On doing away with SDV.
SDV is great as far as what I have experienced. What dont you like about it? "Channel is currently unavailable"
A - Try Again
That doesn't seem to happen as much as it used to, but it still happens. Signal problems can cause this as well. |
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swintecPremium,VIP
join:2003-12-19
Alfred, ME
kudos:4 Reviews:
·RapidVPS
·Sprint Mobile Br..
·VoicePulse
·RoadRunner Cable
| said by jimk:said by swintec:said by ke4pym:*On doing away with SDV.
SDV is great as far as what I have experienced. What dont you like about it? "Channel is currently unavailable" A - Try Again That doesn't seem to happen as much as it used to, but it still happens. Signal problems can cause this as well. Are you sure that is not solely a signal problem? I got that before (when SDV was first implemented here) on some channels and once we did some re-wiring and splitter reconfigurations things worked beautiful ever since.
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jimkPremium
join:2006-04-15
Raleigh, NC Reviews:
·RoadRunner Cable
·voip.ms
| said by swintec:Are you sure that is not solely a signal problem? I got that before (when SDV was first implemented here) on some channels and once we did some re-wiring and splitter reconfigurations things worked beautiful ever since.
It can be either signal or SDV related. |
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 loliPremium
join:2002-08-26
South Richmond Hill, NY
·Earthlink Cable ..
| No thanks After switching to Verizon Fios, I'm saving 35 dollars on my package and instead of 10/1 internet I now have 35/35 which I absolutely just love. Even after the discounts are gone in another year, still end up paying less than with TWC and with better service.
Oh yeah, this is with a DVR and an extra HD box which I didn't have with TWC. |
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Re: lol I just contacted Verizon, your deal is too good to be true that has 75/5 with TV 210 and $100 gift card. They won't do it.
I guess having to stay with clear 4g for $30 old plan no speed limit cap and direct tv. It's lucky I have 11-15 down and 1 up with home modem. |
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| tw idiots They let an entire community of 3500 homes leave their service instead of letting the HOA off the hook for unoccupied homes that are in foreclosure. I know they lost 100's of customers to Fios and Satellite. What marketing idiots. The cost per customer to retrieve them after their 1-2 years on another service is huge. |
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·Verizon FiOS
| I guess they don't care When I switched from TW to FiOS, I dropped the TW box off at 23rd Street in Manhattan. The only person there who questioned why I was cancelling TW was the guy at the front door handing out the numbers for the wait queue! I've never heard a word from TW...no calls, no letters...asking me to come back. I guess they really don't miss me! |
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 chip89
join:2012-07-05
Independence, OH | saw one this morning I saw one of these Ads this morning even know there's no Fios where I live. |
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·Time Warner Cable
| reply to swintec
Re: $50 million better spent Could be a SDV capacity issue or signal issue or even a code malfunction in Navigator. iGuide has a bug where you lose SDV server connectivity and sometimes have to reboot the box to get it going again. I know various areas use different number of SDV QAMs the most I have seen used in any division is 24 which the North Texas (Dallas metro) system has set aside for SDV. When SDV was first deployed we had 8 SDV QAMs during the launch period where they were only switching 24 HD channels to get the system running and then it went to 11 SDV QAMs while the system was having the QAMs rearranged to make room for 16 total SDV QAMs and then on the final push another group of HD 3:1 QAMs were moved to SDV and then we went to 16 SDV QAMs and they started adding more channels at first none of the SD digital channels were moved over to SDV and for a while the only SD SDV channels we had were new adds and then in 2011 TWC did another reconfiguration where they moved a ton of SD channels to SDV and freed up 12 or QAMs for SDV and eventually VOD got another 4 QAMs out of this change as well  so the North Texas TWC system is loaded:
24 SDV QAMs
8 VOD QAMs
6 DOCSIS downstreams
thanks to a 860MHz rebuild that was done from 2006-2008 |
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