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PDXPLT
join:2003-12-04
Banks, OR | Good news for New Englanders Lucky them that they are rid of Verizon!
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FairPoint plans to extend broadband service to rural areas and to communities near urban areas, Johnson said.
Subscribers will probably get much better broadband deployment now; the smaller independent telcos typically have much higher DSL availability percentages than the ILEC's.
If you believe the analysts like Dave Burstein, Verizon could profitably deploy DSL just about anywhere. But Verizon doesn't consider DSL an very interesting business: quote:
Verizon Communications Inc. ... plans to shed phone lines in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont as part of a strategy to focus on its wireless and television businesses.
They want to become the next Comcast, plus a big mobile phone company. They don't care about POTS, or internet access. | |
 batterupI Can Not Tell A Lie.Premium
join:2003-02-06
Netcong, NJ
 ·Verizon Online DSL
| said by PDXPLT:They want to become the next Comcast, plus a big mobile phone company. They don't care about POTS, or internet access. FIOS is internet, big time internet for those that know what the internet is.
Perhaps Dave Burstein and those people should wake up and smell the coffee. Verizon is the 800 pound gorilla and has learned the hustle a buck free market well, no sharing.
The Godfathers, at&t and Verizon, have the entire country, well the parts that matter, and aren't going to start a war with each other. | |
PDXPLT
join:2003-12-04
Banks, OR | said by batterup:said by PDXPLT:FIOS is internet, big time internet for those that know what the internet is. As far as Verizon is concerned, FIOS === TV. All other applications are minor, inconsequential blips. Look, people pay up to $100 (or more) for TV to Comcast, if you include premium channels, PPV, VOD, etc. Compared to that, who cares about the piddling little amount the average Joe is willing to pay for internet acess? Talk to any Verizon exec; that what they'll tell you. | | |
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batterupI Can Not Tell A Lie.Premium
join:2003-02-06
Netcong, NJ Reviews:
·Verizon Online DSL
| said by PDXPLT:said by batterup:said by PDXPLT:FIOS is internet, big time internet for those that know what the internet is. As far as Verizon is concerned, FIOS === TV. All other applications are minor, inconsequential blips. Look, people pay up to $100 (or more) for TV to Comcast, if you include premium channels, PPV, VOD, etc. Compared to that, who cares about the piddling little amount the average Joe is willing to pay for internet acess? Talk to any Verizon exec; that what they'll tell you. Really? So when I hear all of the talk about muni-broadband and broadband for the great unwashed stimulating technological groth it is all B.S.? | |
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