| Does Baltimore Deserve FiOS? Has the City of Baltimore done anything at all to lure Verizon into making the investment? Have they offered to connect city services to it, speed up the permitting process, offer tax incentives, share right of way, provide electrical services, or the like? |
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| You know how Baltimore City lured cable in back in the early 80's? By finding ways to get as much money as they could out of them. Finally, United Cable came in and it took them 4 years to wire everything up. During that time, you needed boxes and, for a month, you couldn't get service because they had no boxes left because they were all stolen. People didn't pay their bills and moved out taking their boxes with them. It is an expensive place to deal with.
I can see why Verizon would not want to deal with the city. |
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 Earleyp
join:2008-07-05
West Sayville, NY
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said by MarshallG:Has the City of Baltimore done anything at all to lure Verizon into making the investment? "If you build it, they will come" »www.rcr-baltimore.com/#/Home
They=FiOS
Also on Long Island »www.rcr-longisland.com/ (has fios anyway) |
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 old_dawg"I Know Noting..."
join:2001-09-22
Westminster, MD | reply to MarshallG
said by MarshallG:Has the City of Baltimore done anything at all to lure Verizon into making the investment? Have they offered to connect city services to it, speed up the permitting process, offer tax incentives, share right of way, provide electrical services, or the like? Hell, if the former chief crook in charge mayor Sheila Dixon was still on her throne, it would only take a few "gift cards" or all expenses paid "business" trips courtesy of Verizon and Bawlmer would have FIOS on every block.
To go with all da ho's and crack dealers. 
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patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY
kudos:1 | reply to Earleyp
Still no. VZ doesn't build FIOS for Internet Only and DTV resale. VZ initially built out FIOS on speculation, without TV franchises in place, but they stopped that years ago. Nowadays, if no franchise, no FIOS.
Baltimore would never agree to a cherry picking franchise with VZ (think RCN-type franchise), so full buildout is the only kind of franchise that will happen, the question is how long of a build out period will VZ and BC demand? If its long enough, its de facto redlining (ghetto doesn't see anything for 5 or 10 years, an eternity in the life of a corporation). NYC got a 7 year buildout (2008), DC got 10 years (2008), Philly 7 years (2009). I guess VZ will want atleast 10 years for a buildout of Baltimore. Boston also has ZERO FIOS for the record. |
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