patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY
kudos:1 | reply to dvd536
Re: Oh, give it up already +1
FIOS is deployed by CO. Not by neighborhood or city, but the neighborhoods/cities that make up a particular CO do influence which COs get picked. NYC is/was deployed first on an experimental basis (no FIOS TV yet) in its affluent white suburban outer ring (but still in city limits), then Manhattan was started and some large MDU complexes/new builds, and now they are working from the outside suburban ring inwards towards Manhattan. Working from the outside in also means working from low density to high density. There is some small exceptions, to the rich affluent suburb rule with NYC's deployment. High density and medium density white rich areas in the middle ring of NYC still have zero FIOS (Forest Hills, Park Slope, Bay Ridge). They also have built out FIOS in a high crime, black, poor, but low density suburb outer ring area of NYC (St Albans/South Jamaica). There is a very strong precedent that every new CO built out must be adjacent to an already built out CO.
Whether its race, income, or housing type is debatable. A buried suburb gets its before an urban aerial. Supposedly the reason why Japan and Europe have FTTH is because of high density and why FTTH is cheap there is the high density, yet Verizon stays away from high density with FIOS. Something smells. Is saying "suburb"/low density a euphemism for white america?
The "redlining" referred to Baltimore and other places can only happen in ex-Bell Atlantic areas, where VZ has a urban, suburban, exurban, and rural monopoly.
Ex-GTE VZ areas are rarely/never old urban. GTE set up shop only in unprofitable rural areas the baby bells refused to wire 100 years ago. Some of those rural areas todays are the suburbs and post WW2 new cities ringing the old baby bell urban areas. Extremely rarely ex-GTE VZ will deploy FIOS into baby bell areas, and then only a tiny bit (see Texas FIOS). So ex-GTE areas cant experience FIOS redlining, except on the distinct suburban vs rural aspect. |
