| reply to Karl Bode
Re: learn your vocabulary Karl is exactly right. In the FiOS case, VZ can do the neighborhood fiber drop, and will count that as "passing" your house. This accounts for about $700 per home passed. The next phase is the "drop," where you call for service, and they first send a crew to bury the line from the nearest box to your house (or string it from the nearest pole), then install the ONT. This accounts for another $600 or so in costs.
But in the past, there have been locations where the service "passed" the home, but VZ did not yet make it available. I suspect there are such locations now, that may or may not see the final drops become available, because of cost-benefit analysis about maintaining nodes with a less than 10 percent take-rate. |
