| reply to ravenssteelers52
Re: Cherry picking neighborhoods....... Thats where DC has an advantage over many areas where lower end areas differ significantly from higher end areas.
Withing DC, there are very few strictly low end areas, almost all of them are mixed, hell even South East DC has expensive upper class parts (mostly now due to the Stadium).
Lets look at Mount Pleasant and Columbia Heights for example (I used to live in Mount Pleasant).. On 17th, 18th, and 19th streets (around Park Road) the houses are well into the $600 to $1.5m range, but 14th through 16th street is a dive of low income (mostly immigrants, and there is also a home less shelter there). Same area, but different income levels. Most of DC is like that.
That said, I am sure there will be some streets left till last, but at the same time, its not cost effective to wire streets a b c, skip d e f, and then wire g h i (while yes there are lettered streets in DC.. this was an example set of letter values). In the long run it will be cheaper for them to wire the entire area.
I fortunately live in the burbs, and have had fios for about 4 years now, and had comcast for the year prior to that (5 years at my current residence). While I do pay more for my FIOS, I despise comcast, that said, in the 4 yers I have had FIOS, I have never needed a technician to come out and fix anything, and I have only had 1 outage. In the year I had comcast, I had 5 technician visit on 3 separate occasions to repair their cables on the pole that leads to my house. I had more outages then I can remember.
FIOS will do well in DC, and the 9 years is for the buildout of an infrastructure in a extremely dense area. In the burbs they had to deal with mostly trenching in dirt, some concrete, some pre existing conduit under the streets... in DC, it is all concrete, and dealing with interuptions to residents (and the rich people will probably pitch a fit at the noise...) |
