| They don't want to lose DSL customers Am I the only one that sees what Verizon is doing? They are not deploying FiOS in the cities because that's where most of their DSL customers are. They want to pick-up as many FiOS customers as possible from the rural areas where DSL is not available while keeping their DSL customers in the cities where DSL is big business for them. The area I live in (not where I am currently posting from) has FiOS in all the towns around me, but doesn't even have plans to bring it to my city. It's not that they are targeting affluent towns, it's that they are targeting areas where there is very little to no DSL available. |
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Ahrenl
join:2004-10-26
North Andover, MA | reply to Verizonnotstupid
It's much more difficult to wire cities. Not only do you need vastly more drops, but in mulit-tenants, that are generally largely rented, you need to get landowner permission before punching new holes in the walls. Plus the multi-unit equipment is more expensive as well. They're deploying it where it is fastest to deploy, and probably where they think the most internet subscribers are located. |
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PDXPLT
join:2003-12-04
Banks, OR | reply to Verizonnotstupid
said by Verizonnotstupid :
they are targeting areas where there is very little to no DSL available. Not true here. Based on what Verizon has publicly announced, and has asked for TV franchises, the only areas getting FIOS are those that already have DSL. |
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 sansri88digital is herePremium
join:2005-12-17
New York, NY
kudos:1 | I don't have DSL available at my house, but the street next to me does. We're both served out of the same CO. Strange isn't it? |
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It is multiple reasons.
- follow the revenue to gain money: go for affluent areas for dollar-per-fiber-mile; plumb rural ones where DSL was not an option and pick up cable/sat customer; where there's already multi-tenant agreements, working in risers and hallways can be fast
- avoid revenue losses: while a truck roll is a truck roll, copper plant maintenance is expensive; only overbuild dsl where there's serious competition from a cable provider, or where they have likely video franchises in-hand; target new customers over upgrading existing customers (maybe?)
- there's bound to be more, but it is never "just one" reason behind a deployment strategy and I need more coffee |
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VZ is wiring by population (25k plus Severna Park, MD) vice (less than 12k parts of Pasadena and Rivera Beach, MD) It's all about the dollar signs. VZ wired everywhere around me but not were I'm located. (4k ft from central office) in pasadena. Verizon also didn't even update the contruction page for the month of September. What gives? VZ is very secretive to keep their competition off guard but that could also bite them in the butt if they take too long to wire up the communities they're already contracted to complete. Come on and finish up Anne Arundel County, Maryland.  |
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