| FIOS Come to Miami : ) |
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 SSidlovOther Things On My MindPremium
join:2000-03-03
Pompton Lakes, NJ
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| How silly. NY Metro is the most densely populated portion of the US, and therefor it is the most cost effective location to wire or rewire.
CV passes 4.5 million homes. An industry HIGH percentage of homes, over 70% subscribe to CV's services in one way or another. Most cable companies only have 30-40% and in many areas as low as 15%. what's the percentage of homes passed and using FIOS in Miami? I have family there that live in condos, and they can't even get HD TV from their cable company let alone a rewire for FIOS.
CV laid 40,000 miles of cable to build the system here to cover northern NJ, LI, and So. Conn. It cost $5 Billion back in the late 90's. They don't cover Manhattan (TW country) but do the other boroughs. That's as much cable as Verizon is laying to do 50% of West Virgina (and WVa is certainly not as profitable per mile). That's MORE cable than they (So Korea's government) laid to give 90% of So. Korea high speed bandwidth.
Unlike early FIOS adopters whose $29/mo specials have run out and found they were in for a shocker - and causing many to switch back, CV has only raised rates on TV signals and box/remote rentals. OOL has stayed the same price for 6 years now. OV pricing hasn't changed (I pay $15/mo after discounts). There are no Federal Fees or Taxes controlled by the FCC on my bill, no billing errors either.
Miami? Doesn't even come close....it's a cheap easy lay...and they didn't do alot of high rises... |
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| My thoughts, Verizon's got the right idea. If they want to win over customers, they have to make a system that is not only capable of standing the test of time but one that is capable of being better than all their competition can offer as well. |
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| When cable redid their network it was much much more expensive to use fiber so thats why they went with fiber to the node. |
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3 edits | Well as long as CV IO reasonably keeps up their network, I can see nice revenue streams for both companies. 1/2 a pizza is still plenty of pie for everyone, who says both can't be happy. |
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 Jmartz
join:2000-07-20
Tenafly, NJ | reply to SSidlov
said by SSidlov:OV pricing hasn't changed (I pay $15/mo after discounts). There are no Federal Fees or Taxes controlled by the FCC on my bill, no billing errors either. I believe OV went up last year when they raised prices for their television service and forgot to tell people that their Optimum Rewards discount was being cut by $5/month. That discount applies to your Optimum Voice line item on the bill. So OV has gone up in price. It should be interesting to see how they "raise" prices this year. The announcement has been made, of course there will probably be a further reduction in the rewards discount to bury an even steeper increase. We shall see soon. |
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SSidlovOther Things On My MindPremium
join:2000-03-03
Pompton Lakes, NJ | I stand corrected; but even at $20 it is lots cheaper than my pots line was. |
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