 ParogadiWhat? Stop Looking At Me Like ThatPremium
join:2003-03-31
Racine, WI | reply to jmn1207
Re: fu to Verizon 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. |
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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. |
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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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