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Re: fiber moose
FiOS is a verizon copyrighted product. Fairpoint cannot offer it. Fairpoint has said they will offer a similar fiber product, but hasn't produced it yet. You will not have a television offering. |
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| So will Verizon force everyone to give back the Verizon DVR boxes for the televisions? And people will have to order comcast again? |
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droobiePremium
join:2007-10-09
Bangor, ME | reply to publius
This is news to me. I'm under the impression that Verizon will continue to offer FIOS (as FIOS) in these markets. It's just unlikely there will be any huge expansion.
As far as I know - Verizon has deployed FIOS in Southern CA markets that are AT&T copper markets. I don't think there's anything preventing them from doing this in Southern NH and the tip of ME.
By the time Fairpoint dreams up their own fiber platform, Oxford Networks will have had Bangor ME covered and started selling to residential (their current focus is their business customers). Considering how badly Fairpoint runs DSL, the concept is amusing anyway. I'm sure they'd find some way to have random disconnects over fiber. |
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| droobie,
It is written specifically in the TSA between Verizon and Fairpoint that Verizon will no longer offer FiOS in Northern New England (with the exception of one contract they have with St Josephs hospital in Nashua, NH)
The only way that Verizon would be able to offer FiOS in those markets again is to come in as a CLEC, install their own FiOS equipment and run their own fiber. The FCC had determined that the phone company has to share copper with CLECs but they do not have to share Fiber with anyone.
Fairpoint would be catastrophically stupid to let Verizon continue to offer FiOS on their existing equipment. (Which on certain levels would not surprise me in the least). But honestly, if Fairpoint were to do that they would effectively take away a huge portion of high paying customers that would not be going anywhere else for internet or tv service. |
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