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 ·Optimum Online
 ·Verizon FiOS
| gimmick It's just another marketing gimmick. "For life" should be defined. The mergers of at least 1/2 dozen local phone companies now make-up Verizon. Have any former "for life" programs actually held up? Hmm, I doubt it. When a telco has an incentive to offer it's customers a contract... that's when you should start RUNNING the OTHER way.. as in cable, or another alternative.
Signing up for a long-term contract with Verizon gives them carte blanch to abuse the relationship. Same thing goes with a cable company. Besides, if you don't already live in an area with FIOS or comparable product, I recommend moving. Even the "BIGGEST" dsl offering (cough,cough AT&T isn't worth signing a contract.. not that you have to, AT&T signed one for $10 768kbit dsl as a concession to acquire bELL sOUTH. Try to sign up for at&t's $10 plan and all they'll give you is "B/S".. no it doesn't stand for bell south..
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DolganPremium
join:2005-10-01
Sun Prairie, WI Reviews:
·Charter
| It is only about customer retention. Verizon has learned that locking customers into long term contracts is the one of the few ways that they can keep their dwindling copper line service base in areas that have competition. The Execs keep thinking line loss is due to the emergence of Cellphones and Cable Co Phone service. The reality is that Verizon has all but abandoned their copper lines by performing no maintainence, not staffing enough field techs to keep up with the workload, and ignoring the needs/wants of their copperline customers.
The deployment of 7/1 DSL, more RTs, and equipping more COs with DSL should have been going hand in hand with the FIOS Rollout in the areas that will not be seeing FIOS for 10+ years{if they ever will see it}. The BS about having to "Lineshare" with the CLECs as a reason to not deploy/upgrade/maintain the lines is moot in a majority of the ex-GTE Areas as there are no CLECs. The biggest competition in the ex-GTE areas are Cable Cos and Cellphones. Verizon is losing the race against the competition in most of these areas, and this is just another lackluster attempt of fixing a problem by putting a band-aid on it.
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