Matt
Take me down to the paradise city
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join:2003-07-20
Jamestown, NC |  May be required to grow
Verizon, AT&T and even the MSO's will soon realize they can't squeeze their current customer base any longer to increase revenues, so they may expand into areas where they feel they can compete and gain ground against U-Verse or Qwest. |
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en102
Canadian, eh?
join:2001-01-26
Valencia, CA | Kudos to Verizon for attempting to expand the Fiber footprint.
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ILpt4U
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Lisle, IL
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I know where I am at in Northern IL/Metro Chicago, I see the white poles with orange caps (the buried fiber markers) all over. Most of them are noted Ameritech/SBC/AT&T (depends on how old they are), but I have definitely noted at least a couple of fiber routes where the orange caps are noted with MCI, which I believe Verizon owns now? I could be mistaken about Verizon having bought MCI, but not about the buried fiber markers noted MCI around my area.
So I guess my point here is, if a Verizon company's fiber is already around, would Verizon consider those areas for deployment as well?
At the same time, though, doesn't Verizon still have a decently sized current customer base that FiOS is yet to reach? Why not concentrate on finishing the current job before starting to branch out onto new turf? |
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Matt
Take me down to the paradise city
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join:2003-07-20
Jamestown, NC | MCI is now Verizon Business, so you're probably out of luck. It's not like they can just tap into the fiber run on your road unfortunately. There is a lot of back-end infrastructure required to support B/GPON. |
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attsbcisgay
join:2003-03-18
Beverly Hills, CA | reply to en102
35 for 5/2
45 for 15/2
and 55 for 30/5
or 65 for 15/15 is a pretty sweet deal imho. |
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en102
Canadian, eh?
join:2001-01-26
Valencia, CA | I'd probably use 5/2, possibly 15/2.
I don't even need faster than the 3008/512kbps I have now.. no reason for me to pay extra.
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Nsane_iceman
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join:2001-02-26
North Richland Hills, TX
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said by Matt  :MCI is now Verizon Business, so you're probably out of luck. It's not like they can just tap into the fiber run on your road unfortunately. There is a lot of back-end infrastructure required to support B/GPON. Yup, our old Frame sites that used to be on MCI are now on Verizon Business MPLS or Sprint. |
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patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY
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I bet the only reason why Verizon built into ATT's POTS territory was to met the requirements of the Video Franchise agreement that states Verizon must provide TV to the entire town (just like the incumbant cable co does). From the TV aspect, the law does not see Verizon's telephone plant/assets/business. |
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