Will Regulators Approve Verizon/Frontier Deal? > Won't be hard

reply to hottboiinnc

Re: Won't be hard

and with VZ areas still pay out the ass for DSL. Try ~$50 for basic in some areas of Ohio. VZ rapes their customers and makes the cities they service to find other service providers that are willing to service.

reply to cdru

Id pick anything over Telco TV any day.

reply to hottboiinnc

Right.

reply to jester121
And I WOULD NOT do business with VZ. I'd pick Hawaii Telcom and Fairpoint over them.

By the way have you ever used Fairpoint services? Has anyone on here used Fairpoint besides the New England states that they picked up from VZ?

Well I can tell you that in Ohio the areas that have them, have NO problems at all.

reply to hottboiinnc

reply to jester121
Gotta have it to order products and pay your bill if you want to do it on the phone.

But FairPoint doesn't have the issues there like everyone claims in the New England States. People knew from the get go there would be problems. The people that did not take the steps to be ready are stupid and deserve what they get. you can't tell me that none of them knew that they would end up getting a new email address and that there would be no downtime. Anyone that is dumb enough to believe that doesn't even deserve the right to have email to start off with, let alone use their ISP for email.

reply to zoom314
Because we don't want to lose our trees, we can't go the satelite route. And, we don't want to go back to Comcrap, so that leaves us with whatever Frontier wants to give us.

The newspaper says we will likely loose the all the online perks and benefits we get with Verizon FIOS internet, as well as settling for far fewer TV channels than we have now, losing our fantastic picture quality, our multiroom DVRs, and other FIOS TV benefits that no one else offers.

This will be the first big degradation of service that we've ever had since getting cable TV in the 80s. How can we fight this I don't know but I'm not caving in yet.

Good for You, I hope You don't lose too much. Of course here in the desert trees normally are planted by People and I don't have any blocking the southern view of the sky, Only snow on Dish will do that sometimes.

reply to hottboiinnc
Except TelcoTV (in the case of Verizon) looks the best.

reply to zoom314
Not everyone is willing to sacrifice their trees to get satelite service. And, I like FIOS VOD very much.

As for Comcast, we were glad to leave their awfull service and bad equipment and get FIOS TV. FIOS is, by far, the best that we've ever had. Nothing came close. They have a good many channels that Comcast doesn't have and many other features.

And, even though we've had FIOS for less than two years, we love the many hundreds of SD channels (the highest channel is ch. 1951), the over 100 HD channels, Urge and Music Choice, their outstanding movie package (with VOD) and especially the ability to record something in one room and watch it in another room with the MRDVR.

We don't want to lose any of that, but we may lose it all when Frontier takes over and decides that they can run a TV service like we have now. Or, anything close to what we have. That's both sad and scary.
Mark F.

reply to vinnie97
like i said. VZ can keep their over products. People wanted their services several years ago but they decided to wait, now they're losing out on it and cable is ahead by miles.

reply to Mark F
The last line should read "We don't want to lose any of that but we may lose it all when Frontier takes over and decides they CAN'T run a TV service like we have now"."
Mark F.

reply to Mark F
Frontier won't get rid of it. they just probably won't repair much if anything if it breaks. Especially since they'll still be getting the feeds from VZ. they will cost them to buy it wholesale.

Frontier will prolly not expand FiOS either.