| [Northeast] Fios in Purcellville, VA So I'm building a new house in Purcellville, VA and was getting to the point of just accepting that I wouldn't be able to get Fios because they aren't in Purcellville, but are in Leesburg which is 10 miles away. Purcellville is all Comcast. Well out visiting the new construction to check on things last night and there are a ton of workers trenching and pulling some type of cable through the ground. I ask one of them what is going on and what they are laying and he says fiber for Fios. Wow, as far as I know no other area in Purcellville has Fios but they are putting it in our new subdivision on the outside of town. Yeah for me. |
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 buckinghamBuckingham Pa
join:2005-07-17
Buckingham, PA | Since VZ is the incumbent voice provider for the area and this is a new development, perhaps they decided that it wasn't prudent to install copper. It also depends upon what CO is going to service your new development...if that CO is FiOS equipped, it would account for going that route instead of copper. |
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Our Purcellville neighborhood was rin with conduit for fils but 9 years later it still hasn't been installed. |
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JimG
join:2011-11-01
Waterford, VA | reply to malletto
Verizon ran fiber, supposedly for FIOS over six months ago but have not offered the service. I'm in Waterford near Hamilton but have no DSL, Cable only fixed point wireless is available. |
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Zenit
join:2012-05-07
N. VA, USA Reviews:
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Any information if VZ intends to complete construction within the town boundaries? The subdivision I live in does not have any remote terminals for the copper, but has fiber-optics in place from the 90s (Bell Atlantic Fiber Optic) that are probably doing nothing, running near the homes. |
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| said by Zenit:Any information if VZ intends to complete construction within the town boundaries? The subdivision I live in does not have any remote terminals for the copper, but has fiber-optics in place from the 90s (Bell Atlantic Fiber Optic) that are probably doing nothing, running near the homes.
I don't know. I was up at our new house yesterday for a builder meeting and there were verizon trucks everywhere. They were even out on the road outside our division stringing fiber up on the poles. The verizon web site says I can get FIOS internet only at the address I'll be moving into soon. |
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| Adelphia too Comcast, now have FIOS. Potomac Falls va 20165 Hi neighbors, I had Adelphia which is now Comcast, Comcast improved service greatly when FIOS came to our area. I have friends with Comcast or FIOS. We game some so there seems to be better game play/ WEB DL with Comcast. And price little lower. Order of TV clarity *best to worst *DTV, FIOS, Comcast. Makes absolutely no sense to buy a hi end TV and have a bad picture.
Back until 2005. $400k TH with no HSI, we live across the street from Dulles town center.
Had the dark fiber from the CO to the light span box, VZ at the time did not want to change the switch FIBER/Copper too much $$. They finally did FIBER ONT-CO in 2008, So I like FIOS it’s a little more $$ but I love the HSI uptime. DVR gets on my nerves. |
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Zenit
join:2012-05-07
N. VA, USA Reviews:
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Re: [Northeast] Fios in Purcellville, VA I have also observed heavy VZ truck traffic in Western Loudoun on my commute over Route 7.
On Main Street in Purcellville, I have observed what looks like the beginning of FIOS - fiber trunks with splice cases at a decent interval are up, but not connected to anything. No GPON splitters yet (the white boxes). Perhaps the splitter is in the CO since its close. Currently they seem to only be doing the stretch of houses near Old Town on the side closest to Round Hill, extending from the Central Office up to Franklin Park but no further.
One can only hope that VZ will not take the easy route and only wire the overhead areas or one section of town.
While Comcast's service has been pretty good here (a nice side effect of being served out of the Sterling head end), competition would be a good thing to reduce prices and improve service from both sides. |
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| Yeah my new house is over near Franklin Park. I believe they are done with fiber in our development since they have been moving down Silcott Springs Road/32nd street east and then north up 32nd. I have seen them in my area in a week but there was a lot of stuff going on last week on the lines. In my front yard I have a green Verizon box in the ground. |
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