| problem The problem with verizons handling of fios they are cherry picking where fios gets installed.
Even here on long island in the same village they are only installing fios on certain blocks.
So I think verizion might have a tough time making its money back on this since they are slowly giving up customers buy only putting fios on certain blocks and not keeping up with their dsl network that customers who dont have fios on their block can access. |
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| The problem is that "cherry picking" is the only way they can afford to deploy FIOS. Verizon has taken a lot of hits from Wall Street (not just Craig) over the cost of deployment. If Verizon can deploy first to neighborhoods where they get the most pickup and return on their investment, they can afford to hit the neighborhoods where penetration will be less when deployment costs come down and they are getting a return on their investment. |
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What travelguy said.
Just for a little perspective, I remeber the article here where the South Korean government was going to spend 25 billion to wire up all their citizens to 100 meg. Well verizon is spending 25 billion to wire up 40 percent of their footprint, before pending Frontier sale, to Fios. I believe they need to cherry pick for this long drawn out affair to work.
Here in Florida, they pushed the Fios build where they got permission to offer video. Manatee County gave them a Video Agreement before the state franchise went through. Now, 90 percent of the county is fiber capable and they have three more years to get the rest done. |
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| If there were some real competition Verizon wouldn't be cherry picking nearly so much. They're still making billions of dollars in profit, on top of the billions in subsidies they stole from the government over the last decade. Any competitive marketplace reduces profit among companies to zero, which is ultimately what is best for the consumer. |
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openbox9
join:2004-01-26
Alexandria, VA
kudos:2 | Zero profit isn't the way to build out infrastructure and it most definitely isn't the way to grow our economy.
If Verizon is cherry-picking, they're doing it in a strange manner. I recently moved into a relatively affluent neighborhood served by Verizon and Cox. No FiOS. I can drive to a neighborhood a few miles away that is considered in a lesser economic status and it's fibered to the hilt. How long did it take AT&T to build out copper infrastructure to every address in this country??? 50 years? 60 years? Now how long has Verizon been deploying their FiOS? |
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