Its simple. Just issue Verizon a statewide franchise in http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r19586547 en Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:39:53 EDT Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:39:53 EDT Re: Its simple. Just issue Verizon a statewide franchise http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19599167 momcat1 : 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.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19599167 Mon, 10 Dec 2007 18:28:03 EDT Re: Its simple. Just issue Verizon a statewide franchise http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19588550 sansri88 : 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).]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19588550 Sat, 08 Dec 2007 20:01:28 EDT Re: Its simple. Just issue Verizon a statewide franchise http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19586997 PDXPLT :
said by jammmin See Profile :

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.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19586997 Sat, 08 Dec 2007 14:32:48 EDT Its simple. Just issue Verizon a statewide franchise http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19586547 jammmin : 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. ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19586547 Sat, 08 Dec 2007 12:44:28 EDT