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| tunnel vision this is of no surprise.. the true advocates of FTTP/FIOS are all but GONE from the company. sales have been mixed at best and the wireless division has been carrying the company for 5 of the last 6 years (according to internal numbers). while VZ ponders what to do, they layoff workers, circle the wagons, and... GULP, COMPETE ON BOTTOM LINE PRICING (more often where competition lives than not)!
i'm not concerned about Cali, but watch very carefully what happens in NY and PA.. this will tell the story of whether VZ feels it bit off more than it can chew with FIOS in terms of expenditures vs ROI. while I'm not one to spin this negatively, there are going to be tea leaf readers out there who will say that Verizon is having trouble acquiring subscribers for FIOS products, particularly FIOS-TV. This shift may mean Verizon must be taking a bath in ROI of triple play and or phone/broadband dual play subscribers. The FIOS voice-aka freedom package doesn't compare well to cable-voip (aka digital voice with lots of calling features included vs 3-4 for vz not to mention damaging taxes/fees). So, what to do?
Honestly, there are no good answers except to say, HONOR & MAXIMIZE it's current commitments... and key to this will be the northeast.. NY, NJ, PA (as well as very dense deployed regions in its footprint). IMO, their current campaign isn't convincing.. maybe for fast food, but not FIOS. FIOS needs to market head-to-head and spell out exactly why the FIOS products are better (and if they're not-- be courageous enough to CHANGE THEM!) than the competition and prove it.. and they can only do that on certain aspects, until it's a complete package, customers will be missing. FIOS is just getting around to having it's local news channels startup in each franchise zone.. what, 6 years after initial deployment? As I've repeated time and again.. if this company keeps moving too slow to do the things they're supposed to do.. they begin to suffer from MCI-Worldcom disease/curse. | |
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| They ate mci 
At this point Verizon really has to do 2 things.
1) Bite the bullet , cut the rates. make it cheaper for people to come to fios. Give people a lower extended rate then what the cable co's offer , not a 6 month gimmick. Let them know they are in it for the long haul.
2) Start wiring metro areas that are mdu's. You have the technology , and they have the man power.
1 & 2 together will kill their cable co competition fast.
Give people a $100 triple play. With voip over fios and let them have all their little perks on the phone line. Verizon owns a huge back haul , pay for local termination where you don't provide and stop taking a whack on local termination in washington for calls going to alaska ( just an example).
Get aggressive in a bad economy ! Workers are the highest cost and this can get cheaper. They game the system anyway , so just spin open a business , VCC or what ever for running fiber and digging the trenches , the work that they don't need the unionized work force to do. Hire workers to VCC bad economy people need work , they will take $15 an hour to dg ditches.
Get the places wired cheaper while they can. Investors right now are looking for huge gains in rough times , it just is not going to happen. Or if it does some thing has to give.
Personally I'd love to see the government finally step in. They can make this a social project , like the highways were.
Wire every state in the union with Fiber to every pop. Create pop's out in the country side. Multiple fiber links into each not on the same cable for back up. Then ftth on sonet type man.and then fiber up the last miles.
2 fold stuff just happened , we employed people and lowered the cost to business when they want to provide bandwidth.
Lease out the links , a provider is doing a bad job , they come along swap the nid out to a new provider. let's make this easy !
But that is a semi decent plan , I wouldn't expect government to take it on.
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"It's always funny until someone gets hurt......and then it's absolutely friggin' hysterical!" | |
| no workers are not the highest cost. its the ceo and all those presidents and vice presidents that keep fleecing verizon with all their overpaid salaries and bonuses. ive never seen more people who run a company get rewarded for doing a below average job. verizon stock prices havent increase in years yet all the raises for these people keep going up.
the fios installers are the ones who keep this company afloat. letting any of them go in layoffs and hiring scab workers in non union jobs is just another slap in the face from corporate greed
the union build verizon and is what gave verizon the funding to build their wireless empire lets not forget that. | |
 KCrimsonPremium
join:2001-02-25
Brooklyn, NY
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·Verizon FiOS
| reply to tmc8080
said by tmc8080:this is of no surprise.. the true advocates of FTTP/FIOS are all but GONE from the company. sales have been mixed at best and the wireless division has been carrying the company for 5 of the last 6 years (according to internal numbers). while VZ ponders what to do, they layoff workers, circle the wagons, and... GULP, COMPETE ON BOTTOM LINE PRICING (more often where competition lives than not)! i'm not concerned about Cali, but watch very carefully what happens in NY and PA.. this will tell the story of whether VZ feels it bit off more than it can chew with FIOS in terms of expenditures vs ROI. while I'm not one to spin this negatively, there are going to be tea leaf readers out there who will say that Verizon is having trouble acquiring subscribers for FIOS products, particularly FIOS-TV. This shift may mean Verizon must be taking a bath in ROI of triple play and or phone/broadband dual play subscribers. The FIOS voice-aka freedom package doesn't compare well to cable-voip (aka digital voice with lots of calling features included vs 3-4 for vz not to mention damaging taxes/fees). So, what to do? Honestly, there are no good answers except to say, HONOR & MAXIMIZE it's current commitments... and key to this will be the northeast.. NY, NJ, PA (as well as very dense deployed regions in its footprint). IMO, their current campaign isn't convincing.. maybe for fast food, but not FIOS. FIOS needs to market head-to-head and spell out exactly why the FIOS products are better (and if they're not-- be courageous enough to CHANGE THEM!) than the competition and prove it.. and they can only do that on certain aspects, until it's a complete package, customers will be missing. FIOS is just getting around to having it's local news channels startup in each franchise zone.. what, 6 years after initial deployment? As I've repeated time and again.. if this company keeps moving too slow to do the things they're supposed to do.. they begin to suffer from MCI-Worldcom disease/curse. Well stated, and I agree. In addition, Verizon needs to rethink and revamp its entire customer service and billing departments. There is far too much frustration being endured with simple ordering and questions about service, and far too many erroneous billing reports as well.
BTW - I'm a former FiOS customer that switched back to Optimum triple play - it was a decision based entirely on price and value. I never had FiOS TV though, I was a DirecTV subscriber at the time instead. | |
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