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Re: I love my POTS>>>> Cherry-picking?
Do you have any idea how hard it is to lay fiber in any urban area? Consider Washington, DC and Alexandria, VA (both in the VZ FIOS service upgrade area), and, like Baltimore, heavily urban (in fact, Alexandria is richer per block than either DC or Baltimore). So tell me, fella, how come *Baltimore* is ahead of both Alexandria and DC when it comes to FIOS deployment? (I'm referring to the city of Baltimore, not Baltimore County.)
Also, what's in that block in the way of buried utility lines? Nobody, not even VZ, can dig willy-nilly where there could be ANYTHING buried in the way of utility lines. (Haven't we taken Comcast to task for doing exactly that?) What it sounds like is that YOU are upset that you personally can't get FIOS due to some other problem with what has VZ blocked from offering the service to you. | |
| Wow, calm down Mr. corporate apologist.
It's been well-documented Verizon has been cherry picking the areas of highest ROI. They've used a legal (but still shady) maneuver to shed their debt and leave their former customers in the hands of bungling, incompetent idiots like Fairpoint.
The telcos have made promises to various state governments for years that they would roll out fiber to everyone in their footprints by certain dates, and repeatedly have taken the subsequent grants and completely ignored those promises. They've stolen almost $300 billion in grants and tax subsidies over the last 10 years. | | |
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