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Re: tunnel vision 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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