| reply to BosstonesOwn
Re: problems with deployment... I dont think this really about taxes, this is about the towns in Mass negotiating with Verizon for ridiculous amounts of money and other forms of compensation. From what I understand some of the towns want roads resurfaced, street light+traffic lights replaced and other totally irrelevant things each town decides. How long can a company even with pockets as deep as Verizon's stay afloat- the fiber deployment is already be an estimated 23 billion dollars nationwide. If you tack on another $200,000 per town- thats alot of money no matter how big a company is. I think this is more of a scare tactic than anything else. fios has already been deployed in most of the areas surrounding boston, some may call that "cherry picking"- i call that smart business. There is no way in hell even a company like Verizon could afford to put fiber up in the majority of western Mass- too much area and too few subscribers. |
