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EPS
join:2008-02-13
Hingham, MA | reply to T1 Rocky
Re: Verizon land grab? There's no formal agreement among the Baby Bells- its mostly about right-of-way agreements. Verizon, as the legal descendant of Ma Bell and General Telephone in their areas, has the right to string up wires anywhere- they don't need new agreements with the town to put up FiOS (they do for television, but that's irrelevant to putting up the wires). To deploy FiOS elsewhere, they'd have to get all new right-of-way in addition to cable franchise agreements, which would be costly.
The area in Texas, as I recall reading, was a town that was partially served by Verizon and partially by at&t. It may be that when GTE's predecessor in the area got permission to wire, they got a town-wide agreement, or perhaps Verizon is thinking of moving from the old RBOC limits and is using it as a test ground, since they're already right there. | |
 JTRockvilleData HoPremium,MVM
join:2002-01-28
Rockville, MD
 ·Verizon FiOS
| said by EPS:...Verizon, as the legal descendant of Ma Bell and General Telephone in their areas, has the right to string up wires anywhere... Well, almost anywhere. In Rockville MD, the city took the stance that fiber isn't for just "telephone and telegraph", so they feel they have to right to keep Verizon out. So far, the city's been successful. Talk about a black hole!
Fortunately for me, I'm outside the city limits, where's there's plenty of light, thanks to Verizon's fiber. | |
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