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Moving.. Dallas/Fort Worth FIOS availability

Wylie, Murphy, and Parker, parts of southern and all of western Allen have it and far eastern Richardson and Garland.

The map lays it out pretty well here
»/gmaps/fios

Just don't pay attention to the one off dots, just the groupings of them and that's pretty much the fios layout of Dallas.

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reply to buckweet1980
Y'all missed the original FiOS city, the only city where Verizon has a local franchise for TV instead of the statewide franchise: Keller.

Service is also available in:

- Watauga (east of US 377)*
- north Fort Worth (generally Timberland Blvd south to North Tarrant Pkwy, west to 35W and east to 377/Denton Hwy excluding the Trace Ridge Pkwy neighborhood); any portion not served by AT&T, Verizon did not overbuild in AT&T neighborhoods in Fort Worth
- Roanoke
- Northlake
- Grapevine (southern Grapevine is *)
- Double Oak*
- Copper Canyon (parts east of Copper Canyon Rd)
- Denton (excluding small areas in eastern Denton served by CenturyTel)
- The Colony (along Plano Pkwy)
- Frisco (limited availability west of Tollway)*

Oh, and Westlake, but unless you make a billion dollars per minute or are VERY old money for the D/FW region, you won't be living there.

Areas marked with * are where AT&T is the incumbent carrier. You might consider these more than other areas because they feature newer GPON hardware that's guaranteed to get the "FiOS Quantum" speeds. Older installs, including most of the original build out in Keller, are BPON and will be limited to 75/35 (I know, first world problems).

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I know Keller, Tx. has some Fios deployment, it is where the SHE (Super Head End) is located for all of North Texas is located. It is probably as far west (Tarrant County) as you could get to Ft. Worth and hope to find Fios. Unfortunately, VZ in Texas, has not created a localized list of fios availability as was done in some other states like PA., MA., etc.

Good luck on your move.

There are only two SHEs (nationwide video downlinks), one in Florida and the other in Illinois. Keller used to be the home of VHO1 (video hub office, or the TV signal distribution point for a region) but I think that has moved to Irving.

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One thing to check: If you will be moving into an apartment complex check with the management before assuming FIOS will be available even if it's in one of the mentioned cities. I'm in Plano and a while back a poster asked the same question for his sister and tho it's available here, her complex had a contract with another provider and she couldn't get it.

reply to buckweet1980
There is a small area of Dallas proper that has FIOS. It is bounded by Preston on the western edge and Frankford on the south. I am not sure how far east it goes.

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OP: Are you going to buy/rent a house or get an apt?

I ask because if you are going to buy/rent a house, it is easy to use the FIOS website to see if they have FIOS there. I did that when I was house-hunting when I moved from CA to DFW in 2009. Had to make sure I got FIOS, it was our #1 priority besides cost. (That's how we ended up in Wylie, cheapest new/newer homes that have FIOS and not a ghetto area).

Apartments though are a whole other ballgame. Just because an apt complex is in FIOS territory, doesn't mean it has FIOS. You need to verify with them.

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Can anyone recommend good areas?? Plano or Murphy is the current targeted areas.. They seem like upper-scale areaa which is what we're looking for.

Also another question for you folks. I know that most of Dallas/FW metro is BPON currently (pockets of GPON I've read). Most of the homes I've checked on the FIOS website show bundles up to 75Mbps, meaning BPON. What I'm curious about is if you go to just internet service it lists 150/300 on the site which means GPON... When I was buying in Pittsburgh if you couldn't get the service it wasn't listed.

Thoughts?

I really appreciate the feedback everyone has given, it helps a lot! My wife and I are very eager to get to a warmer climate! The Fall nastiness is setting in here in PA.

Depends on your job location. South Lake and Colleyville are very nice areas with excellent schools.

reply to buckweet1980
The thing about schools is that Texas does not share property taxes with poorer districts like other states. So pretty much most of the schools on the north side of Dallas proper are decent.

Plano is huge and has it's "bad parts" if you can call it that, but overall is nice. Most of the gigantic houses appear as you head out towards Flower Mound and up towards Frisco.

A friend can get 300mbit in NW Plano, but there are two Plano CO's I think. Most of the rest of North TX is BPON except for Denton and some others I may be forgetting.

Just remember to factor in $200/month for all the tolls you will hit on the north side.

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Like the others have stated, where is your job? Does your wife work if so where is job? Do you have kid(s)? What is your price range? How are open to commuting?

I will actually be working from home and the wife is a Nurse. No clue as to which hospital she'll be at yet though.

No kids, just dogs. Right now we're looking for a 4+ bedroom home, especially since the interest rates are down in the 3.25 range. We are going to buy a house that will suit us for any need that we can think of.

I live in Murphy and I'm on GPON (Only because I forced through an upgrade on a business order, though, but I know at least my neighborhood has it because of me )

I have 150meg service in PGH right now, honestly I don't need it. I'll be fine with 75/35.

Who is the cable company in the area? Is it time warner? It would make sense why it hasn't been upgraded to GPON yet.. It seems like the Comcast areas get more attention because of Comcast pushing the speeders higher than FIOS. TW hasn't done that yet, that max they offer to my knowledge is 50Mb.