said by fiberguy:said by ptrowski:Over for uverse, possibly.
Over for FIOS? Hardly.
Why do you say that? JUST becuase it's "Fiber" service doesn't make Verizon's FiOS service anything special.
It's not ALL about the connection. Verizon still has a horrible rap for pricing, billing, customer service, and that they play games with their customer's services and what they can do with it.
Just becuase FiOS seems to be fairly straight forward, that's for now.. don't think for once moment that as they migrate people over to a FiOS offering that they will move the game to FiOS from their traditional services. Prices are already going up with FiOS.. and, well, people just don't forget how they were treated in the past by ANY provider.
To this day, I give Qwest/US West as LITTLE of my business as I have to. I have stand alone DSL with them and that's it! I'd much rather tie two cans and string together than use their dial tone ever again.
Further, when it comes to Verizon, stop and think with out blinders on for a moment. They treat their classic services one way. FiOS is under a whole other set of rules and pricing/offerings. Its the same company.. why do you think FiOS is treated any different? ... becuase they want to sell it. They're not being good guys and treating FiOS any different to be nice.. they're doing it to make it attractive, right now. In 10 years, lets have this talk and see how wonderful Verizon treats FiOS people.
You have a good point. However, we have subpar service with bad pricing from Comcast now, let's worry about that instead of throwing mud on FiOS that at least tries to do something right for whatever (possible bad) ulterior motive.
