Verizon May Reach 80% FiOS Penetration > But what happens to rural customers offloaded to others

But what happens to rural customers offloaded to others

Naturally the percentage would go up. If they are dropping areas that didn't have Fios, or had very little, then the percentage would just go up without them adding any more at all. This story is misleading.

Not really misleading, the author assumes the reader is bright enough to determine that fewer non-FiOS markets means the coverage percentage goes up automatically.

It is misleading. The title reads "80% of Verizon's remaining customers may get fios." The 80% will already exist. The title makes it seem like 80% of those who don't have it now will get it.

The claim is now that more of the rural subs have been dumped, the of the remaining Verizon subs who don't yet have FiOS, 80% will eventually get it or that 80% of all subs will have FiOS available since some never-would-be-serviced rural subs were dumped.

EDIT - I'm confused.

The 80% is after the elimination of these rural markets and upcoming plans to push deployment past 18 million homes.

Confusing, maybe. But not misleading.

Cause the way I read your portion of the item is that 80% of the current VZ subs who don't have FiOS available would be getting it when the Verizon quoted portion appears that they mean 80% of the overall Verizon footprint would have FiOS available, including places that currently have it.

reply to Bit
Verizon spent $85,000,000 laying fiber, etc so they could offer FIOS internet and TV to Fort Wayne. They gave us more channels than we could have ever dreamed of, many features we never had before and super-fast internet.

Now, we may lose all that because they are selling us out to a company that doesn't know how to serve us? Pesky, are we? We'll show them just how pesky we can be!
Mark F.

What do you think the new company will do, abandon the hardware and fiber infrastructure? Of course not. They will continue operating it as they spent a pretty penny to buy it.

reply to Karl Bode

said by Karl Bode:

The 80% is after the elimination of these rural markets and upcoming plans to push deployment past 18 million homes.

Confusing, maybe. But not misleading.

reply to Bit

They're currently service FiOS sub with no indication that they'll stop.

reply to Karl Bode
And, devastating, just the same. Just what we Hoosiers don't need or want.
Mark F.