Here in Massachusetts Verizon has suspended all further FIOS deployments and are rumored to be getting ready to sell off all non-FIOS markets in the state (which is probably about 70% of the state).
I've heard this as well, but Verizon's eager to stop Mass. from charging property taxes, so they often threaten to stop deployment if they don't get what they want from lawmakers.
I can't tell if union workers are just catching wind of this bluffing, or there really has been an expansion halt.
Every bit of evidence I see is that they are finishing up in the towns that they started, but are not going into any more communities. I talked about this with one of the lineworkers and he confirmed that there would be no further FIOS deployments in Mass. He did say they transferred some workers down to Rhode Island, but concurred that it's a real possibility that Verizon will dump much of Massachusetts.
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