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 ·Verizon FiOS
3 edits | What the........ Why is the CEO of Verizon, Lowell McAdam, concerned with Verizon Wireless' LTE build... Hmmmm ? Doesnt VZW have their own CEO? (Dan Mead)
Point is, the spectrum deal between Verizon Wireless and the cable co's was justified by people on this website, with "Verizon Wireless is actually a separate company" (Cellco)
If true, someone please explain why the CEO of VERIZON is concened with the VZW LTE build? Expansion of Verizons own flagship product, FIOS, is being sacrificed for LTE which is total BS, (not to mention their landline and DSL products) and the entire reason the cable spectrum deal should have been disallowed. |
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openbox9Premium
join:2004-01-26
japan
kudos:2 | said by ITALIAN926:Why is the CEO of Verizon, Lowell McAdam, concerned with Verizon Wireless' LTE build... Hmmmm ? Because VZ is a majority owner of Cellco Partnership? |
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Reviews:
·Verizon FiOS
4 edits | Did you read past the first sentence?
Verizon is letting VZW products and services affect their wireline business. Verizon should be planning to upgrade their entire footprint with FiOS; not planning to cover the remaining copper areas with LTE.
People cant argue that VZW is a separate company when arguing FOR the spectrum deal, (selling cable wireline products within their own VZ wireline footprint) .......
...then argue they are the same as VZ when they plan to replace copper with LTE. |
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I know your union brainwashes you, but VZW makes up a large portion of mothership VZ's profits. Wireline doesn't do very well and enterprise is getting hosed.
Why wouldn't he be concerned with the LTE build? You act like everyone in wireline VZ should ignore VZW.
Whether you like it or not, and I think FIOS should be expanded also, Mcadam has a responsibility to his share holders to increase the stock price and profits. I think when he started he said something about doubling the stock price.
However I do not agree with what he is doing with the leadership, pretty much getting rid of every old wireline leader and replacing them with young kids from VZW. |
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·Verizon FiOS
| Ah, and you dont think I understand where the profits come from.. like Ive never read over quarterly statements.
Youre not telling me anything I dont know. The point is that Verizon should be replacing copper with fiber, to actually compete with the competition. They should not be sleeping with the competition, especially in overlapping wireline areas. Who would actually agree with the way this is evolving? Besides shareholders, and the cable companies? |
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| Why should they build it out? Because they feel like being nice? Where will the money come from? Would Ivan have continued building it out? Maybe he would've a little more, but not forever.
And no, don't give me the "they post XXX BILLION dollars in profits" speech. As the CEO he is to lead the company in the direction he thinks is best. The old bell/nynex/whatever phone company days are no more. Get over it. |
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·Verizon FiOS
| So, is VZW a separate company or not then Mr. Paul?. Justify the Cable spectrum deal for me. Explain how Cellco is a separate company, and dealing with Cable companies, within their own footprint is not a conflict of interest/common sense.
I am totally confident that without Verizons "relationship" with VZW, the FiOS buildout wouldve been 100%. They wouldnt have kept nursing copper for all eternity. |
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said by ITALIAN926:Point is, the spectrum deal between Verizon Wireless and the cable co's was justified by people on this website, A) cable was squatting on that spectrum and was never going to use it
B) Verizon plans to start rolling out 4G LTE over this spectrum late next year once their 700 MHZ buildout is done. This will be a benefit to Verizon customers. |
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Some good friends of mine recently got HSI at their house in the country. Nobody would bring it to them via DSL or cable, not even Obozo, so they had dialup until about a month ago. No AT&T, sprint, or T-mobile cell service. Yet, Verizon brought fiber (with you landline workers) to the only cell tower nearby. Now they have 4G . They pay out the ass for it, but they can get 4G. Is that all bad? This is using non-cable spectrum.
Ivan had the foresight to build out FIOS but unfortunately he is no longer there. To say that the cable spectrum will ever deliver the same experience has a hardwired connection...I do not think that is true.
Both of us agree on one thing-they should have kept on building out FIOS. I just think that as a private company (even though they provide infrastructure) they can, and should do what they want. |
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openbox9Premium
join:2004-01-26
japan
kudos:2 | reply to ITALIAN926
said by ITALIAN926:Verizon is letting VZW products and services affect their wireline business. Verizon should be planning to upgrade their entire footprint with FiOS; not planning to cover the remaining copper areas with LTE. Wait until the LTE build is done.said by ITALIAN926:People cant argue that VZW is a separate company when arguing FOR the spectrum deal I don't see the relevance either way. |
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join:2001-11-13
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said by RonPaul:Both of us agree on one thing-they should have kept on building out FIOS. I just think that as a private company (even though they provide infrastructure) they can, and should do what they want.
As long as they get ZERO tax breaks, sure. But that is not the case and never will be, they always have their hand out. Remember how VZ forgot to install all that fibre in PA? oops |
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One of the conditions of the spectrum deal was that Verizon and the cable companies couldn't market each others products in territories where FiOS is. It does not, however, apply to areas serviced by only Verizon DSL. Since Verizon's looking to offload that anyways, it makes sense, but doing so before selling off these assets seems like a breach of their duty to shareholders. |
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| Ive read conflicting details on that as well. IN FiOS areas, the cable co's can sell VZW products, but Verizon cannot sell Cable. Completely ridiculous. |
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BiggA
join:2005-11-23
EARTH | reply to ITALIAN926
Agreed. They need to pursue more fiber. Otherwise their wireline business will just finish dying off in areas that aren't upgraded. |
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