fire100_old
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Michigan
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| I wish they would compete with Charter
It would be nice if they would compete with Charter, or offer even a lower price for this, I would change in a heartbeat.
Charter 3 meg service $39.99 no extra fee's.
None the less, I am glad to see Verizon getting a higher speed.
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eSteve
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Alexandria, VA
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| I would hope the "likely bundle discount" would drop this down to the $34.99 ballpark, if you have Verizon local/long distance.
Also, I'm assuming you need to be no more than 11,000 feet from the CO, not at least 11,000 feet 
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fire100_old
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Michigan
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| I am hoping they would compete stand alone, I have VOIP now, I think they would get the edge offering speeds like this, stand alone.
At least in those areas that can get either or.
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welleasycomeeasygo
@optonline.net
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Well, you can reward verizon, the fcc and your local municipalities, get the 3.0/768 then cancel voice service or keep lifeline if they make you, and get voip and take the $200+ back in service charges, taxes and fees. This might encourage them to lower the price of 3.0/768 and don't get the voip with them, they're too expensive.. lingo, and vonage are $19.99 and $29.99 respectively.. until the big guys come down in price- use alternatives or go to IDT for local service... at $40/mo for local & ld copper..novoip you have choices... see what they say when you take your voice service for not being competitive with cable... voip is adding thousands of subs per month and they are quaking, believe me... they don't want to admit it but the money they rake in from ordinary copper dialtone is where they're bottom line is really.. millions of lines that could potentially to voip and to other companies..let's see them operate on 1/10th of their current revenue..hahahaha it's fiber or die for them-- yeah baby! |
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bac522
join:2003-08-04
Manchester, NH | reply to eSteve
More like 11 ft... |
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furlonium
Computer Over? Virus equals Very Yes?
join:2002-05-08
Bethlehem, PA
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said by eSteve  :
Also, I'm assuming you need to be no more than 11,000 feet from the CO, not at least 11,000 feet
Yeah, hopefully we won't have a buncha people angry because "DSLR SAID THAT I HAD TO BE AT LEAST 11K AND I'M 25K FEET AWAY AND CAN'T GET IT WAHH"
maybe they wouldn't type in all caps. |
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insomniac84
join:2002-01-03
Schererville, IN | reply to eSteve
Yea, quite a strange technology that works great if over 11K ft, but those people right next door are OOL. Maybe verizon solved the dsl distance problem. |
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Drahcir5
join:2003-03-09
Tampa, FL
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Verizon has been DSL for a rather short amount of time compared to other companies. They are rather reluctant to invest money until they know FOR sure it will make them money (do you blame them?). It's possible that is why they took awhile to do the 3M.
The reason it is west only is because the Legal dept. in Verizon said, "If you can not offer it to everyone, then no one can get it". There are still CO's that are Frame Relay and Frame can't get 3M.
Verizon is working on correcting that problem. Everyone in the east can get it as long as your distance qualifies. |
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Tzale
Proud Libertarian Conservative
Premium
join:2004-01-06
Sweden
 ·Verizon FIOS
 ·Optimum Online
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said by bac522 :
More like 11 ft...
Thanks for your totally informative post. It's not Verizon's fault this is limited to 11,000 feet. That is as far as the technology allows. For god sakes, some of us can't get more then 320/128 (768/128 plan) and pay the same amount as the people on 1500/384. Doesn't bother me, I use my 10,000/1,000 OOL connection and when FIOS becomes available I'll switch to the 15,000/2,000 package.
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Tzale
Proud Libertarian Conservative
Premium
join:2004-01-06
Sweden
·Verizon FIOS
·Optimum Online
| reply to welleasycomeeasygo
said by welleasycomeeasygo:
Well, you can reward verizon, the fcc and your local municipalities, get the 3.0/768 then cancel voice service or keep lifeline if they make you, and get voip and take the $200+ back in service charges, taxes and fees. This might encourage them to lower the price of 3.0/768 and don't get the voip with them, they're too expensive.. lingo, and vonage are $19.99 and $29.99 respectively.. until the big guys come down in price- use alternatives or go to IDT for local service... at $40/mo for local & ld copper..novoip you have choices... see what they say when you take your voice service for not being competitive with cable... voip is adding thousands of subs per month and they are quaking, believe me... they don't want to admit it but the money they rake in from ordinary copper dialtone is where they're bottom line is really.. millions of lines that could potentially to voip and to other companies..let's see them operate on 1/10th of their current revenue..hahahaha it's fiber or die for them-- yeah baby!
Just how do you plan on having the Telcos deploy fiber to the home / premise if they don't have any customers? If they don't have customers, they don't have profit. Simply business knowledge tells you no profit = halted deployments of new technology. VoIP sucks, Vonage went down several times this year for hours. My Verizon landline has never went down in almost 15 years. When VoIP becomes more stable I'll switch.
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