NOCMan
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Flower Mound, TX | reply to FTTC
Re: 1.6
Agreed. Either Verizon is not being aggressive enough, or there are actually that many people locked into contract with other carriers. |
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Eat Me
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| said by NOCMan  :Agreed. Either Verizon is not being aggressive enough, or there are actually that many people locked into contract with other carriers. Or some people are happy with their current provider and don't wish to change. Believe it or not, some people get stuck in the same routine for years and get all they need, so they don't see the need to upgrade to the best and the latest. |
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bender
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| they could be like me and just not have an hd tv to use the hd tv programming aspects. don't get me wrong i'd hop on that internet service they got in a heartbeat.
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Ahrenl
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North Andover, MA | I don't have an HDTV. The TV experience is better, and, more importantly for most people, CHEAPER. |
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| said by Ahrenl :I don't have an HDTV. The TV experience is better, and, more importantly for most people, CHEAPER. How is it better?
I used to think my SDTV was great until I got a HDTV. Only then did I realize what I was missing. |
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JPL
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said by bender :they could be like me and just not have an hd tv to use the hd tv programming aspects. don't get me wrong i'd hop on that internet service they got in a heartbeat. Except that Verizon has more SD channels than any provider around here, and the PQ of those channels on my SD TV is astounding. You're also right about the internet service - definitely the best going. No download caps, no throttling, and no slow periods (I get 20+Meg down everytime I test it - no matter what time day or night), and totally rock solid - I've had one short outage in 3 years. |
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bender
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clubs: | i'd invade a small country to have fios on my desktop. |
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said by JPL :Except that Verizon has more SD channels than any provider around here, and the PQ of those channels on my SD TV is astounding. You're also right about the internet service - definitely the best going. No download caps, no throttling, and no slow periods (I get 20+Meg down everytime I test it - no matter what time day or night), and totally rock solid - I've had one short outage in 3 years. Most people aren't technophiles. There are people still watching analog TV from an off air antenna. They aren't going to care about FiOS and its hundreds of channels?
Most of my TV watching is on the networks (Fox, ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, MyNetwork, CW) and 24 hour news channels. Maybe occasionally Discovery and Comedy Central. Most people have similar viewing habits. In fact I don't know anyone who has time to watch all of those those channels.
I would very much like some sort of a la carte service. If FiOS offered that it would probably attract a lot of people. |
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