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 jmn1207Premium
join:2000-07-19
Ashburn, VA | reply to Parogadi
Re: fu to Verizon said by Parogadi:You do realize that they buy exclusive contracts with stae and city govenments and that the FCC has granted them the ability to not share any of the fiber they lay with any other company, which is why they rip out the normal phone line when you get fios, because they have to share the copper twisted pair with other companies. By doing all of this they are setting themselves up as an only option, once you have them, it becomes an expensive pain in the ass to get rid of them. It's allot like GM did to the rail systems in the US » en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Mo···tructureAs they paid to get roads built they also bought out the light rail companies and dug up their tracks, essentially forcing the people that lived in the area to buy a car as there was no alternative anymore. I clearly remember when AT&T was forced to split. The point is that any exclusivity that Verizon "bought" had to have a seller. Blame your politicians looking for quick cash to make voters happy. Blame the president of your home owner's association. Blame Frontier for spending so much money on Verizon's wasteland. This was not a one-sided affair, and nobody should blame Verizon for "cherrypicking", as if they are doing something unscrupulous.
The GM analogy is a bit off the mark. If Verizon were allowed to buy their competition and force everyone to use DSL, then it would make more sense. But your idea is not lost to me, and I see the angle you are driving at (like the pun?), but Verizon should not feel compelled to do something financially silly just to make a few customers happy at the sake of potentially making many angry.
I don't think we should be bailing out banks or any other failing industry, and I don't want to have to save Verizon or AT&T in the future because they tanked trying to keep their heads above water. Let them run their business. They SOLD part of what they owned, it's not like they just abandoned ship. Somebody, obviously, thought this was a good deal, or no one would have bought this at the asking price. | | |
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 ParogadiWhat? Stop Looking At Me Like ThatPremium
join:2003-03-31
Racine, WI | they got their exclusivity on fios that they lay from the FCC, we don't get to vote on the FCC.
Many parts of the country are paying the price for the lack of public transport in the same way that the people that have fios will have to find a way to have their phone lines reinstalled, these days the phone companies only cover the cost up to the little gray box on the side of the house that connects to the pole, anything from the box inward is on your dime. | |
JPLPremium
join:2007-04-04
Downingtown, PA
kudos:1 | said by Parogadi:they got their exclusivity on fios that they lay from the FCC, we don't get to vote on the FCC. Many parts of the country are paying the price for the lack of public transport in the same way that the people that have fios will have to find a way to have their phone lines reinstalled, these days the phone companies only cover the cost up to the little gray box on the side of the house that connects to the pole, anything from the box inward is on your dime. The reason Verizon doesn't have to share their fiber is because THEY'RE paying for it... all of it. That wasn't the case with copper - the fact that the government paid for a good chunk of the layout of copper became one of the justifications for the provision in the 1996 Telecom Act forcing phone companies to share their networks.
As for Verizon having monopoly control in areas - what are you talking about? They're the company rolling into areas offering alternatives for TV service that didn't exist in those areas before.
I don't get it - if they try to be all things to all people, they get accused of snubbing out competition, and there's gnashing of teeth of Ma Bell coming back together. If they sell off parts of their system, divesting part of their service, then that's proof of them acting like a monopoly too? Someone please explain that to me.
While what they're doing sucks to people in those FiOS markets affected, it's business. If it happened to me, I'd be disappointed, sure, but to make the claim that this is an example of Verizon acting like a corporate bully just doesn't make any sense. | |
ParogadiWhat? Stop Looking At Me Like ThatPremium
join:2003-03-31
Racine, WI | Tell that to the people in Pennsylvania that paid them to roll it out, and they never did. »/nsearch?cat=n···sylvania | |
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