said by RJ44:said by ptrowski:Of course they are not going to physically pull the fiber. It's a term used to stop deployment or bring it to a crawl.
Huh? The Verizon spokesman said (quoting the article)
"Santoro said Verizon is still committed to building its FIOS fiber-optic broadband service in Massachusetts".
How is that a threat to FIOS deployment?
The threat would be the speed that it takes. Technically they could light up one community in the year and still say they are building it out. They can slow the pace considerably.