TKJunkMail
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Re: Who cares
said by God  :Well i guess some people do care very much about this, but i would gladly give up my copper in order to get the fios They may care a few years from now, when they can't go back, and Verizon starts raising the rates for Fios. Then there will be no independent DSL providers to switch to. The cable companies will be able to win back some of those Fios users at that time.
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oliphant
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Corona, CA | According to DSL Extreme (at least as posted by the GM in the DSLx forum), Verizon is doing reseller agreements for FIOS. |
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Independent DSL providers? Ummm...Verizon owns the switches. You can get VOL for cheap or pay more for another provider, which will use Verizon's DSL network...thats it.
Fios, for the bandwidth to pricing ratio is a better deal than DSL hands down. Plus, there is not 3 mile limitation.
The people complaining are looking for the $15-$17 DSL deal for pocket savings. It never became an issue before the cheap packages came to be. In fact, Verizon was losing money on $30 DSL before they lowered the pricing. Remember the closed CO posts? |
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North Andover, MA | Around here, at least, you can request that your copper not be disconnected when they come to install to your house. I don't know if they've changed this policy recently however. |
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join:2003-04-21
Middleboro, MA
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If there is no competition is it possible that the Communist of Massachusetts (oops sorry, Commonwealth of Massachusetts)will sit by and let a big company do that. No way. They will regulate it and force Verizon to provide the pipe and let others sell the service.
The hard part will be the fact that it is costing almost $1000 per house to hook up (on top of the $1000 to go by the house).
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