jammmin
join:2000-12-14
Upper Marlboro, MD | Its simple. Just issue Verizon a statewide franchise
That would spur Verizon to rapidly increase deployment in NYS.
Look what a statewide franchise did to NJ. Over 300 communities with FIOS after the first year of the franchise and hundreds more coming. |
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PDXPLT
join:2003-12-04
Banks, OR
| said by jammmin  :That would spur Verizon to rapidly increase deployment in NYS. Nonsense. It would only do what it has done everywhere else: trigger VZ to deploy FIOS-TV to those "high value" subscribers that they would have deployed eventually to, anyway. It would do nothing to change Verizon's attitude of not deploying even basic DSL broadband to a significant portion of their subscribers. Those subscribers would continue to be without, while the so-called "high-value" subscribers would just be given another choice for TV, something they could already obtain from cable and/or satellite providers.
In other words, it would do nothing to address the core problem that this initiative is intended to address. |
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sansri88
Go digtal you analog laggards
Premium
join:2005-12-17
New York, NY
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Couple things:
1) I still do not have FiOS available in my township, and we have the 5th highest population in the state, and
2) NY should issue a statewide franchise LIKE NEW JERSEY. We had special requirements with the state franchise, with certain must-wire areas (I forgot the cities that were must-wire, but there's a list out there). |
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momcat1
No Relation To The Bobcat
join:2002-10-21
Wappingers Falls, NY | reply to jammmin
No, No, NO!!!
That would guarantee that our town will never get it. Frontier rules the telco side, and Cablevision the cable side. There's no such thing here as competition. |
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