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join:2004-01-26
Alexandria, VA
kudos:2 | Franchise Negotiations Perhaps the city should have been a little more proactive in overall franchise negotiations instead of focusing on telephone only, then moving on to bigger and better things. Even if the franchise was granted and VZ deployed their fiber, we'd probably be having a discussion about "redlining" in a few years.The service area will be determined during the cable television franchise negotiations. The City does not have the legal authority to require Verizon to provide FiOS services everywhere in the City. Verizon has informed the City that it intends to serve approximately 65 percent of the City’s residents. »alexandriava.gov/FIOS
Negotiators must have done something right here outside the beltway (Fairfax county) because VZ was pulling fiber in my neighborhood a few months ago and "FiOS is coming soon". |
| Maybe they should have made the agreement contigent on deployment of FIOS instead of an empty promise.
Baltimore City mandated 100% coverage when they signed an agreement with United Cable (later TCI and then Comcast) and they still did not do it until they were forced to. Could be another reason Verizon won't go into the City. |
