Surfinusa
Premium
join:2001-02-08 | And so it begins
Hah. They want your money. NO problem. Give me fiber and I can give you some money. hah |
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Noah Vail
Premium
join:2004-12-10
Lorton, VA | Uh-huh
Me no like it.
I don't even own a TV. I want the faster residential BB speeds and TW/BH won't sell it to me unless I get the DigitalTV package.
A La Carte Please.
NV
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Erwin_D
join:2003-06-30
Netherlands | Why...
Why don't these companies stick with what they do best? Cable for TV, phone lines for phones. Next thing, Microsoft will start making cars and Ford will make computers... nothing good can come from it. |
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bamabrad
join:2006-01-27
Port Orange, FL | What about COMPETITION??
With the RIGHT kind of competition, the consumers will be the greatest winner!! |
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cadre22
join:2002-09-18 | reply to Erwin_D
Re: Why...
‘So… what kind of car do you drive?...’
‘A Microsoft…’ |
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Dagda1175
join:2001-06-17
Goleta, CA | TV
I cant imagine verizon offering television service. Even their fastest dsl around here is less than half the speed of the cable I have. |
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icp1
Premium
join:2000-10-13
Saint Louis, MO
clubs:
 ·AT&T DSL Service
| said by Dagda1175  :I cant imagine verizon offering television service. Even their fastest dsl around here is less than half the speed of the cable I have. Where have you been? FIOS fiber offers 30/2 packages if I remember correctly. |
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WMLGuy
join:2000-06-05
Rockaway, NJ | Actually it's 30/5 |
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N3OGH
Bear patrol must be working like a charm
Premium
join:2003-11-11
Philly burbs | reply to Dagda1175
I think Verizon is only offering TV in areas served by their fiber optic service.
Even then, not all areas yet.. |
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anonpronman
@dsl.net
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ArchAngel21x
| Complete BULLSHIT
Great the Afluent folks in NY,NJ,CT get a choice of high speed internet/cable.
What about the rest of us..(bend over)
The FCC is truely Useless.. F- the poor? Not your attitude? well that is your stance Mr. Fcc man. |
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Rickez
Goinginsane
join:2000-09-02
Three Rivers, MA | reply to icp1
Re: TV
Fio's is in how many homes now? 17? Verizon can not handle this, they never finish anything. |
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Anonymous
Premium
join:2004-06-01
IA
 ·Mediacom
| reply to Noah Vail
Re: Uh-huh
said by Noah Vail :Me no like it. I don't even own a TV. I want the faster residential BB speeds and TW/BH won't sell it to me unless I get the DigitalTV package. A La Carte Please. NV Well you can just pay for digital TV and don't use it at all. It will come down to that because a la carte will not bring any significant savings. They want your money and they'll get it one way or another.
If they ever decide to offer a la carte they will jack up the prices and tell people to stop bitching because they are offering a la carte. |
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kamm
join:2001-02-14
Brooklyn, NY
 ·T-Mobile US
| And what's up with internet service?
Interestingly enough, the study maintains deep silence about the troubled cable networks: when it comes to next-gen bandwidth, new high-speed tiers plus plenty of HDTVs in a house, most of the cable networks will be forced to finally invest into long due but always postponed (see profit) developments, otherwise telcos will eat up their outdated networks alive within few years. |
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Ahrenl
join:2004-10-26
North Andover, MA
 ·Verizon FIOS
| reply to Rickez
Re: TV
said by Rickez :Fio's is in how many homes now? 17? Verizon can not handle this, they never finish anything. Actually there are about 30 towns in Mass that are pretty much all wired up for Fiber, that they're rolling out TV service for. Countless others in the other couple dozen states they're also wiring. With the money they're spending they're making some good progress.. Considering Comcast is considering offering 16/1 service to all FIOS available localities, I'd say Comcast is a little more worried about it than you are. |
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tc1uscg
join:2005-03-09
Saint Clair Shores, MI
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Whats really sad are the poor morons who shell out 30+ bucks for unreliable, overrated VoIP services from cable that cost's cable a few dollars to provide. It's one thing to pay 15 bucks a month or less for this same service, but when cable charges 40.00.. It's almost insulting. |
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Ahrenl
join:2004-10-26
North Andover, MA | reply to kamm
Re: And what's up with internet service?
Well, that's debateable.. D2.0 and D3.0 will bring their speeds up to acceptable levels, most likely. |
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Matt
Take me down to the paradise city
Premium
join:2003-07-20
Jamestown, NC
·North State Commun..
| reply to kamm
said by kamm :Interestingly enough, the study maintains deep silence about the troubled cable networks: when it comes to next-gen bandwidth, new high-speed tiers plus plenty of HDTVs in a house, most of the cable networks will be forced to finally invest into long due but always postponed (see profit) developments, otherwise telcos will eat up their outdated networks alive within few years. Wasn't it the cable industry that just invested about 90 BILLION to build a hybrid-fiber-coax network oh, say, about 10 years ago?
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SkysFalling
@comcast.net | Tripple Play without Services?
Wow! All Verizon has available is POTS. Can someone explain the "Vs" part of the article?
Verizon's so lame they can't deliver Chicken Shit DSL to 8000 feet! FIOS is going to be laughable when it gets here in twenty years! LOL! |
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TKJunkMail
Enjoy the sun
Premium
join:2002-03-03
Avalon, NJ
·Sprint Mobile Broa..
·Comcast
|  Looks like cable in drivers seat for next 5 years
At least based on this study, it looks like cable companies will be in the driver seat for the next 5 years, maybe 10. And that means don't start looking for any price drops except in those few areas where the telcos have successfully rolled out video.
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Dagda1175
join:2001-06-17
Goleta, CA | reply to icp1
Re: TV
Not even beginning to be widespread enough to matter. |
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