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Re: So what happens.. Again, Verizon doesn't want these markets, or the union workers complaining about Verizon being cheap, or the regulators complaining about how Verizon is sliding when it comes to support them.
They want to offload the debt, get tax benefits, then come back in three or four years and gobble many of these customers back up with LTE service. The companies (like Fairpoint) that buy these markets wind up so overweight with debt, by the time Verizon comes back around with LTE service -- it will probably be higher quality (5-10 Mbps, reasonable latency) than the aging DSL most of them are getting... |
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 en102Canadian, eh?
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Valencia, CA | I agree. VZW may want to offer a LTE based 'Wireless Land Line' using LTE to replace POTS/DSL. It would cost less to deploy and maintain in rural areas by far.
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 tim_kButtons, Bows, Beamer, Shadow, KaseyPremium,VIP
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kudos:13 | reply to Karl Bode
said by Karl Bode:Again, Verizon doesn't want these markets, or the union workers complaining about Verizon being cheap, or the regulators complaining about how Verizon is sliding when it comes to support them. They want to offload the debt, get tax benefits, then come back in three or four years and gobble many of these customers back up with LTE service. The companies (like Fairpoint) that buy these markets wind up so overweight with debt, by the time Verizon comes back around with LTE service -- it will probably be higher quality (5-10 Mbps, reasonable latency) than the aging DSL most of them are getting... Exactly. This way Fairpoint can't compete when LTE is deployed. Verizon won't compete against itself when they deploy LTE to those regions. But with another 12,000 layoffs coming to the mid Atlantic region, I don't think VZ is going to stop with just rural areas. I think they'd like to get rid of most or all landlines and break what's left of the union.
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| Well somebody has to service FiOS lines, but yeah. I imagine there's plenty more sales coming. Like upstate NY, for one. |
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