Reviews:
 ·Optimum Online
 ·Verizon FiOS
| screw metered, try hocking fios at current rates most of their progress in sales have slumped since the increased stand-alone pricing and have no real competitve offer for VOIP with a dozen+ calling features for le$$. so what if the broadband is better.. that honeymoon is over and consumers do care about the bottom line. $150 cash back isn't all it's cracked up to be if your stuck in a 1-2 year contract. not that cable companies are any better, at least most of them (with a duopoly competitor) won't try to lock you into a contract like the telco will. rates also vary from market to market so, ymmv on how much of an extra discount you can get out of verizon, if any. competing against comcast, cox, or time warner isn't exactly the same as competing in NY metro with cablevision (some of the oldest deployments & cable-tv franchises since FTTP project got greenlighted). verizon is currently refocusing on wireless and having a bit of drama with at&t over QOS/phones.
sure, there are some of you who would *KILL* for have fios, where it currently is not.. but outside of their current commitments to build, good luck... never gonna get it is hard reality.
I support 3rd party carriers coming into the market-- espeically where the big 3 (at&t, verizon, comcast) fail to compete effectively, and/or fail to deploy FTTP/DOCSIS 3, by the end of 2009. These companies have had at least 5 years to get their deployment plans in place and almost all have scaled them back and broken certain commitments all the while earning huge profits & roi for their companies amist rate hikes, bandwidth shaping, caps, and selling/underserving bad last mile geographies. Clearly someone else can do it better.. but good luck getting startup money.. the banks arent chomping at the bit to lend after their free home loan scam which put the taxpayers on the hook for several hundred billion. |
