PDXPLT
join:2003-12-04
Banks, OR
| reply to jammmin
Re: Its simple. Just issue Verizon a statewide franchise
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. |
