 kyler13Is your fiber grounded?
join:2006-12-12
Arnold, MD | Ultimatum Mass to Verizon: Please pay taxes or pull your poles immediately. You can't because of your federally mandated traditional copper phone network? Guess that leaves one option, then. And if you decide to shelf FIOS deployment, good luck selling your DSL opposite DOCSIS 3.0 deployment.
Seriously, when will gov't learn? |
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iansltx
join:2007-02-19
Golden, CO
kudos:2 Reviews:
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| You got that right. Verizon's FiOS project is a moneymaker for them, and they're only going to deploy it where they make money anyhow. Property taxes aren't going to change that much, especially when the alternative is selling $40 DSL with no TV and seeing phone revenues to to cellular providers or Comcast. Fortunately they're a cellular provider, but... |
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 stevek1949We're not in Kansas anymore
join:2002-11-13
Virginia Beach, VA | There is no such thing as a business tax. It is treated as a cost of doing business. The costs are always passed on to the consumer as increased rates. Nothing new here. |
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 AMDUSERPremium
join:2003-05-28
Earth
kudos:1 | reply to kyler13
Why not use emminent domain to seize the poles.. and charge them rent to connect to them. [It will pay for itself- immediately..] |
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patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY
kudos:1 | Why doesn't the power company own them? What, it rents them? |
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 ScottMoOnce in a LifetimePremium,MVM
join:2000-12-15
Stony Brook, NY | On poles the power company connects to it usually jointly owns them (and pays tax on half). |
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 KoolMoeAw ManPremium
join:2001-02-14
Annapolis, MD | reply to AMDUSER
Poles in question are on public property....already 'seized', eh?
What they should do is not tax VZ, as I agree all such costs are simply passed on the customer, but allow any competitor to use the poles.
So similar to what you said; simply disallow exclusive use of the poles to VZ. It may not make any difference, or it may allow a competitor to start running their own wires...
KM
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 calvoiper
join:2003-03-31
Belvedere Tiburon, CA | reply to stevek1949
Yes, but to pass these costs along, a landline telco may have to undergo a rate case or similar proceeding.
No big deal in a normal world, but a cardinal rule in these cases is that ALL costs get examined--strangely, utilities always bring up rising costs but forget about dropping costs unless prodded.
What Verizon really wants to avoid is having all of its costs examined, for the regulators may find that -SURPRISE!- in a world of decreasing costs for electronic equipment, some of Verizon's costs may be overstated....
calvoiper
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