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Re: Futile said by pnh102:Verizon has made it very clear that it has no intentions of ever upgrading service in the parts of New England that it wants to sell off. Yes. I get a kick out of the people fighting the deal crowing about how we are winning and the sale to Fairpoint won't go forward, etc. etc. And what exactly do they win? They keep Verizon until Verizon can spin off the area to another company or some private equity investment company buys the territory. In the meantime all they get is no changes at all and benign neglect from Verizon. Yeah, they are winners alright.
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Ahrenl
join:2004-10-26
North Andover, MA | I'll mark it down..
May 17th, we actually agree completely.
One thing that drives me nuts about this whole thing is how VT and NH are constantly referred to as "New England". They're the least populous states (I'm pretty sure RI beats them) and verizon is aggressively rolling out FIOS throughout Mass and even southern NH. Take away Southern NH and NH is just a few ski resorts and lakes. |
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 John GaltForward, MarchPremium
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kudos:3 | said by Ahrenl:...and verizon is aggressively rolling out FIOS throughout Mass and even southern NH. I can't find any Fios deployments much west of U.S. 495, with a few exceptions towards Worcester.
That is hardly "throughout Mass"...
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Banks, OR | reply to fAcEtIOUs
said by fAcEtIOUs:And what exactly do they win? It's looking like they win keeping existing union contracts, and nothing else.
I guess this alot like the anti-Globalization movement. 'very clever how Big Labor has been able to get the enviromental lobby, and others who ordinarily wouldn't care very much about them, to work toward protecting their monopolies in the labor market by endeavoring to block foreign competition. |
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Ahrenl
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North Andover, MA | reply to John Galt
Uhh, Littleton? So that's Northern and Central middle Mass, I haven't looked at the map recently enough to see if anything in southern middle mass has been wired. And by population percentage it absolutely is. Western Mass is a whole different world. I went to school out there, we couldn't even get cable TV. Forget internet. I did get to go to some kickass town wide brush burning parties.. seriously. |
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