wdoa
join:2001-10-16
Spencer, MA
 ·Verizon Online DSL
| reply to Loker
Re: When it is available over more of your footprint.....
..bingo... I don't think Verizon has plans to roll out FIOS in anything but the most populated areas. Here in Central Massachusetts Verizon has limited FIOS to areas within 30 miles or so of Boston. I'm 10 miles west or Worcester, so I don't think the odds of seeing FIOS in these parts in the next decade are so are very high. |
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arck1969
join:2006-11-27
Apple Valley, CA | FIOS is in rural areas in California. If Banning, CA has FIOS then you really in the middle of nowhere... |
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Pixie74
join:2006-09-10
Glen Allen, AL
| Ha! Banning, CA. has over 23,000 people in 2000 I do NOT think that is "rural" or "the middle of nowhere". Try living in Winfield, AL. this is from city-data.com Population (year 2000): 4,540. Estimated population in July 2005: 4,673 (+2.9% change)
So yeah get a "town" with a population less than 10,000 that has FIOS and I will take that as rural, until then Verizon is still just cherry picking the rich highly populated areas. |
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Cyber2lz
join:2001-11-15
Odessa, FL
| I live in Odessa, Florida on a dead end road at the edge of a lake. We have had FIOS for going on two years. Hardly the bustling metropolis that is Banning, CA !!!
So all the hype about V* cherry picking dense/new/high income neighborhoods is Bravo Sierra.
Just a thought,
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madrhino
join:2004-07-03
 ·Verizon FIOS
| said by Cyber2lz  :I live in Odessa, Florida on a dead end road at the edge of a lake. We have had FIOS for going on two years. Hardly the bustling metropolis that is Banning, CA !!! So all the hype about V* cherry picking dense/new/high income neighborhoods is Bravo Sierra. Just a thought, Let me guess.A ramshackle trailer in the middle of a mosquito,snake and gator infested swamp with no local politicians or influential neighbors for miles.The kind of God forsaken hellhole that only exists in WWII jungle prison movies.
Did I mention no influential neighbors?
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revuney
join:2003-03-22
Somerville, MA
| reply to wdoa
It seems like it's random in it's targeting of areas...
Cambridge and Somerville have yet to get a roll out, and they are right next to Boston. Yet oddly enough, Lynn (WTF) and Saugus both have it... Not that I'm complaining.. I have it, and I love it. |
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Ahrenl
join:2004-10-26
North Andover, MA
·Verizon FIOS
| reply to wdoa
Actually, FIOS is installed and working in towns right next to Worcester, like Westboro, which is 40+ miles from Boston. You still probably won't see FIOS until 2010, but a decade is absurd. Unless you live west of Springfield, you'll be brought to the 20th century soon enough. I'm sure the faster speeds won't improve your fact finding ability though.. |
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Ahrenl
join:2004-10-26
North Andover, MA
·Verizon FIOS
| reply to Pixie74
If Verizon were building out FIOS in the poorest state in the nation, to the least populated towns therein, I would be worried. Thank god you're not getting FIOS, or none of us would.. because they'd go out of business.
Btw, rich and most populated don't go hand in hand, it's usually one or the other. Rich people buy more land, and pay to keep low incoming housing out.. so there can't be as many people. |
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atowncrazy
join:2001-11-17
Carrollton, TX | reply to Pixie74
FiOS is deployed to where my parents live in Murphy Texas. Thay have less then 4000K people in the town. They also have other smaller surrounding towns as well. I would consider that rural. |
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n2jtx
join:2001-01-13
Glen Head, NY
 ·Optimum Online
| reply to arck1969
Any sign of it in Morgan Hill, CA? My firm used to have an office there and the DSL was great. We first opened the office when it was GTE but it quickly switched over to Verizon. I miss the place...
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DHRacer
Fire Survivor
join:2000-10-10
Lake Arrowhead, CA
·Charter Pipeline
·Verizon west (ex G..
| reply to Pixie74
If VZ was cherry-picking rich highly-populated areas, Banning, CA would have LOST to Redlands, CA.
Banning is a huge growth market right now as people ditch the urban sprawl (give it 10 years and they'll be right back where they started), but Banning has had FIOS since before VZ started putting FIOS in Redlands.
And even then, only a few people in Redlands can actually get FIOS. I'd say 3 people I know on this forum from Redlands have it (I'm not in that list), while I believe FIOS in Banning has more subscribers than Redlands.
Banning, in comparison, is "rural" to Redlands, which is suburban, at most.
Just my 2 cents.
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intercede007
join:2002-10-20
Fort Walton Beach, FL
| reply to madrhino
said by madrhino :Let me guess.A ramshackle trailer in the middle of a mosquito,snake and gator infested swamp with no local politicians or influential neighbors for miles.The kind of God forsaken hellhole that only exists in WWII jungle prison movies. Actually, a metropolitan area within roughly 20 miles of more than 600,000 people (Tampa and St. Petersburg). |
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RideRed
Vista needs a popup blocker for Vista
Premium
join:2005-06-18
USA | reply to Pixie74
I have FiOS and I'm 7 miles from the nearest grocery store and nearly 12 miles from the closest CO.
Verizon isn't cherry picking anything. |
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madrhino
join:2004-07-03
1 edit | reply to intercede007
Gee.I wonder if any retired Verizon executives live anywhere near there.
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Fausttt
join:2006-08-07
Norfolk, VA
| oh yeah. It costs billions to roll out a whole new infrastructure. How dare verizon try to cut their costs by rolling out the higher income locations and big cities first then spread from there. Its no in my location yet but damned if im complaining. it has been out all of around 3 years. OMG how dare they dont have it in bumf--- wherever. How come i cant have a fiber line straight to my trailer!?! |
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Loker
Premium
join:2004-07-11
Fargo, ND
clubs:
| said by Fausttt :oh yeah. It costs billions to roll out a whole new infrastructure. How dare verizon try to cut their costs by rolling out the higher income locations and big cities first then spread from there. Its no in my location yet but damned if im complaining. it has been out all of around 3 years. OMG how dare they dont have it in bumf--- wherever. How come i cant have a fiber line straight to my trailer!?! they can go ahead and cherry pick I don't care.....just do not make challenges you can only back up in 1% of your entire footprint.....
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bloodx
join:2002-08-25
North Myrtle Beach, SC | reply to wdoa
I'm in bloodx, SC, pop 9000. |
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migafre
join:2003-06-19
East Elmhurst, NY
| reply to Fausttt
That's just BS man, I live in Queens, NY and the only areas I've seen dug up for FIOS is in Manhattan. Don't tell me Queens isn't dense enough at 30000 per square mile. It kills me to hear that some hole in Florida has FIOS and not my area. It doesn't fit your argument that infrastructure is rolled out in big cities and high income locations. |
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Loker
Premium
join:2004-07-11
Fargo, ND
clubs:
| reply to RideRed
again I never said they were cherry picking in this post (although I do think they are doing a couple of rural areas just so they can say "look we aren't cherry picking) I said that they should not be challenging cable until they have covered a much larger portion of their network....
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