wifi4milez
Big Russ, 1918 to 2008. Rest in Peace
join:2004-08-07
New York, NY
 ·Verizon FIOS
 ·Sprint Mobile Broa..
 ·RoadRunner Cable
 ·BroadVoice
| Does this mean NYC is next??
Hopefully this means us city residents are next! I would actually consider switching from TWC to Verizon if they brought FIOS here. I would not switch for their crappy DSL service however. Bring on the fiber!
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KeepOnRockin
Music Lover Forever
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join:2002-11-08
Beaverton, OR
·Comcast
| said by wifi4milez  : Bring on the fiber! I second that!
Verizon needs to bring more fiber to the Oregon area as well. Until they do, I'll be right here patiently waiting  |
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sporkme
drop the crantini and move it, sister
Premium,MVM
join:2000-07-01
Morristown, NJ
·Optimum Online
| reply to wifi4milez
said by wifi4milez :Hopefully this means us city residents are next! I would actually consider switching from TWC to Verizon if they brought FIOS here. I would not switch for their crappy DSL service however. Bring on the fiber! Don't hold your breath. When they talk about MDUs, they are talking about nice suburban units that were built in the last few decades. The NY metro area is just not quite so "neat", and you have much flakier property owners that could really give two sh*ts about whether there's FiOS or not. Even out here in NJ I've been looking at the building I'm in and I'd be truly shocked if they could run fiber into each apartment for any sort of reasonable cost.
I'll get excited when I hear about the first Brooklyn deployment in an old brownstone.
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Pirate515
Premium
join:2001-01-22
Brooklyn, NY
|  said by sporkme :Don't hold your breath. When they talk about MDUs, they are talking about nice suburban units that were built in the last few decades. The NY metro area is just not quite so "neat", and you have much flakier property owners that could really give two sh*ts about whether there's FiOS or not. Even out here in NJ I've been looking at the building I'm in and I'd be truly shocked if they could run fiber into each apartment for any sort of reasonable cost. That's what I'm afraid of. The Board of Directors in the co-op that I live in are a bunch of old-school dinosaurs who try to keep any amount of consruction to a minimum. I know for a fact that they are going to start kicking and screaming when Verizon comes to them with a proposal to upgrade the wiring to fiber. On the other hand, hopefully they can use the wire ducts that Cablevision installed in the hallways to run their fiber. They recently installed a DirecTV dish on our roof and are using the same ducts to run coax to the apartments of those who want it. Hopefully they can use it for fiber cables as well when Verizon starts wiring up my neighborhood.
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bokamba
Chengdu Rocks
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join:2002-04-05
Falls Church, VA
 ·Verizon Online DSL
| reply to sporkme
Old buildings may be a deployment problem in New York, but I think a more likely problem will be people trying to get the government to force Verizon to deploy in places they don't want to deploy yet. That will drive Verizon away for sure. Nothing like a misplaced sense of entitlement to ruin things for other people. |
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grandpinaple
join:2006-01-03
New York, NY | reply to wifi4milez
I have but one thing to say,............. w00t. |
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