KCrimson
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join:2001-02-25
Brooklyn, NY
 ·Optimum Online
 ·Verizon FIOS
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Re: Once Again - Corporation Holds Us Back
said by gaforces  :When you have a company that says "We will give you service on our terms with our rules, or forget it" it would be hard to work with them if you are representing the people who want the service. Sounds like they need to open up the bidding process for other's who can do it just as well ... it's a global marketplace you know. It would be better to have none, for now, than something that doesn't meet their needs. Especially since they abandoned northeast coast already ... 15 year contract is way too long to lock into any technology because 5 years from now, things will change. This isn't about deployment, its about FiOSTV. I'm already a FiOS customer in NYC. The only contract that needs to get done is the TV franchise contract. The politicians are doing what they do best - "acting" in their own interests. Since Verizon has been deploying slowly there are lots of politicians whose constituents are getting impatient. Also, many of the politicians represent low income areas that will see low-penetration of FiOS customers and those politicians have no reason NOT to make a big fuss while making a name for themselves on the city council stage. It all makes for a difficult arena for Verizon to get its business done, and the reason why the Bloomberg administration - no strangers to high-level-corporate-negotiations tried to get the deal fast-tracked before the circus comes to town. |
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patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY
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said by gaforces :Sounds like they need to open up the bidding process for other's who can do it just as well ... it's a global marketplace you know. They did, 3 bankruptcies later and only 1/5th of 1 borough was ever wired. Its called RCN. |
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Richard B
Fur It Up
join:2007-06-22
Portland, OR | reply to gaforces
The you end up with nothing.
Verizon is more than capable in doing the job. The problem is politics. all the bidding process will do is to inject more political corruption than serving the customers needs. |
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gaforces
United We Stand, Divided We Fall
join:2002-04-07
Santa Cruz, CA
3 edits | reply to pnh102
When you have a company that says "We will give you service on our terms with our rules, or forget it" it would be hard to work with them if you are representing the people who want the service.
Sounds like they need to open up the bidding process for other's who can do it just as well ... it's a global marketplace you know.
It would be better to have none, for now, than something that doesn't meet their needs. Especially since they abandoned northeast coast already ...
15 year contract is way too long to lock into any technology because 5 years from now, things will change.
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‘Do ye, quieting in your bosoms your strong hearts,
Who of many good things have had your fill even to surfeit,
With what is moderate nourish your mighty desire; for neither will
We yield, nor shall you have all else as you wish.’
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