Reviews:
 ·Optimum Online
 ·Verizon FiOS
| Verizon should start to be competitive.. and creative! POTS is not the communications panacea it used to be. The northeast blackout had COPPER phones lines dead in the water for days.. so, understand this if you have a real emergency you need a backup plan (and disaster, grab and go kit). Being complacent about relying on cell, cable & telco to get help will leave you in the lurch just at your time of greatest need. In that case.. the cost savings of VOIP is a better deal for the consumer... provided they have backups (not just telecom backup batteries-- old school/two-way radios).
Verizon is being lazy and complacent in its vision for the FTTP network. They have tried and failed to evolve their business model in all three areas-- phone, cable and internet. The tuff talk about competition, lowering prices, and other deceptions cost the company much needed revenue for growth. This perception of high price, but high quality is not all it's cracked up to be.. it's arrogant and a bit Apple'esque IMO. Now, the season for that kind of business model has come and gone.. so if they don't want to see the gains they've made reverse, they better get down to doing the hard work of making good on the promises at it's inception of the FIOS network and stop trying to evolve it back towards an AT&T. |
