 baineschile2600 ways to livePremium
join:2008-05-10
Sterling Heights, MI | Under the impression... ...that VZ didnt give a rats ass about their copper system anymore, and strictly was putting all investment capital towards their overpriced wireless services, and cherry picking fios builds. |
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 jsz0Premium
join:2008-01-23
Jewett City, CT | They don't really have to spend anything to slow their loss of copper DSL customers by offering a better price. DSL is going to end up being the new dial-up. |
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 hambone42Peace, through superior firepowerPremium
join:2002-02-02
Manassas, VA | reply to baineschile
said by baineschile:...that VZ didnt give a rats ass about their copper system anymore, and strictly was putting all investment capital towards their overpriced wireless services, and cherry picking fios builds. That's pretty much on target, at least in my experience. I'd love to have VZ DSL but I'm (just) too far from the CO, and VZ is completely uninterested in spending a dime on an RST or remote DSLAM that would serve me and my neighbors. Meanwhile, the density here is just low enough that we're on the "keeping pushing it to the right" portion of the FiOS deployment plan. So, Comcast keeps getting dollars that would otherwise be VZ's. Oh well.
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 rawwhidePremium
join:2000-09-03
The Sticks
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Damned if they do damned if they don't. AT&T gets continually slammed for investing in there copper from folks saying that its a waste and they should just deploy fiber. VZ gets slammed for deploying fiber. HAHA. Go figure!!
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said by baineschile:Under the impression that VZ didnt give a rats ass about their copper system anymore, and strictly was putting all investment capital towards their overpriced wireless services, and cherry picking fios builds. You shouldn't believe everything you read.
1) My DSL works flawlessly, and is $156 cheaper per year than Optimum Online's overpriced cable service.
2) Fios is available in the $300k condos down the road from me, but not in our $600k townhouses. So what was that about cherry-picking?
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 ddg4005Premium
join:2001-08-22
Bronx, NY
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1 edit | said by Bobcat:said by baineschile:Under the impression that VZ didnt give a rats ass about their copper system anymore, and strictly was putting all investment capital towards their overpriced wireless services, and cherry picking fios builds. You shouldn't believe everything you read. 1) My DSL works flawlessly, and is $156 cheaper per year than Optimum Online's overpriced cable service. 2) Fios is available in the $300k condos down the road from me, but not in our $600k townhouses. So what was that about cherry-picking? Thank you! I'm glad someone else realizes Verizon is not cherry-picking its Fios deployments. Here in NYC there are middle-class and low-income neighborhoods that have the service and high-income areas that don't. Cherry-picking is a term that's thrown around too loosely.
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bn1221
join:2009-04-29
Cortland, NY | Cherry-picking is term that's thrown around too loosely
I think they cherry pick the area cheapest to deploy (MDUs and areas close to a slick, CO or RT).
I have a CO 600 feet away and no FIOS. In a town of 35K.... |
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