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join:2007-04-04
Downingtown, PA
kudos:1 | Didn't Comcast try this already? Against DirecTV. That was such an overwhelming success that I could see why Comcast would want to use the exact same arguments against ANOTHER provider that has been eating their lunch. Way to go, Comcast! Rehash those ad campaigns that failed utterly in the past. That'll stop the bleeding of video customers that you've been experiencing!
This ad is just flagrantly false on most counts, btw. My personal favorite is their claim that Verizon has to bring in heavy machinery to dig up your lawn to lay the fiber... but no digging is necessary with Comcast! Umm... last I checked, if you have underground utilities, you have to have the CABLE run to your house too, right? Maybe I'm wrong... in which case it's amazing... Comcast actually discovered a way to give you cable TV... without the cable! I guess that's why it's Comcastic! BTW, I'm hooked up with FiOS aerially - the fiber is strung from the telephone pole to my house. And guess what? The conduit carrying the fiber is no thicker than the old Comcast coax cable that's also still strung to my house. |
| The equipment makes a cut in the soil to pull a blank through the ground, the blank is attached to one end of the conduit pipe. The conduit for the fiber line is that orange stuff you've likely seen popping up out of the ground near you by utility poles. Our install of the conduit didn't damage the lawn driveway or nearby plants or bushes. They also have a machine that allows them to pull the blank under your sidewalk & driveway. This under pavement maneuver does require a small chunk of ground to be pulled up because the conduit as you can imagine is not flexible enough to make sharp turns, but they put it back like a puzzle piece. The whole process took 3 hours from pull up to drive away. The inside stuff was done, took an hour, the guy took the cable from the ONT and made a new jack in the wall inside for it, looks very nice. He also installed the power supply and its related cabling, he also activated & tested the router and by the time he left we were surfing at high speed (you could really tell the difference even with just page loading).
We are going to move to VZ as soon as its practical for tv.
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