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30Mbps Verizon Fios for $55
Long Island 'war' with Cablevision escalates
Verizon has traditionally been offering two Fios fiber tiers to residential users; 5 Mbps/2 Mbps for $34.95, and 15 Mbps/2 Mbps for $44.95. A third 30Mbps/5Mbps tier was being aimed at home or small business users at a price of $199. Now one Long Island user indicates that thanks to competition with Cablevision (or at least a war of PR departments), Verizon is offering the higher 30Mbps for $54.95 in Cablevision markets. (See Screenshot).
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shane349
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Delta, OH

shane349

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wow

i wish i had verizon, that kicks the crap out of adelphia.

mig
MVM
join:2000-10-26
Anytown, USA

mig

MVM

Re: wow

Any chance Verizon might like to buy SBC?

anonpronman
@69.183.x.x

anonpronman

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Re: wow

No
Scilicet (banned)
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Aurora, CO

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I wonder if Verizon would consider opening shop out here. Speed and price both make Comcast look the thieves that they are. For $45 I get 4Mbps/354Kbps. Maybe I should move east.

Glaice
Brutal Video Vault
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North Babylon, NY

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Nice price for those speeds!
Estragon
join:2003-06-20
Greenville, NH

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I have Verizon, and wish they would die. Maybe whoever replaced them would care about me as a customer.

FIOS is great if you can get it. All Verizon can provide me is a half-speed modem connection. (Or a T1 line for really big bucks). Every time I see a Verizon DSL ad I just want to kick James Earl Jones in the nuts.

DieAlready
@comcast.net

DieAlready

Anon

Re: DIe, Verizon, Die!

Cool!

/me gives James Earl Jones a swift kick in the NUTS!

The sad truth is that DSL has only been deployed to 25% of Verizon's customers ,and most of the deployments are on the east coast. Forty years from now,they'll still be trying to deploy fios! I too have lost all hope in Verizon. On the bright side,Direct TV is getting in to MAN'S(Wifi) with deployments starting next year.

BIGMIKE
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FIOS,Westminster is scheduled to begin next year:D

»Another roll out of FIOS in So. Calif?

WileEC
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Yonkers, NY

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WoW! I must call Verizon tomorrow and see if I can switch up from 15/2 to 30/5! -drool-

Good lord! My number qualifies for that rate!

For 5 bucks more a month, I can double my speeds. It's just insanity! I LOVE IT!
VansHSI
join:2005-01-29
America

VansHSI

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You go girl

Awesome

Jovi
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join:2000-02-24
Mount Joy, PA

Jovi

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Sigh

If I could only afford to live in Nassau county. :/ sighs

quickbeam
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quickbeam

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I'm moving

to verizon country
jwkuipers
join:2005-05-02
Andover, MA

jwkuipers

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OMG

I am calling to upgrade now!

DownLow
Nope...I Got Nothing
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Long Island

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DownLow

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Re: OMG

Well, I checked the site:

»www22.verizon.com/FiOSfo ··· age.aspx

It must be a typo. Eitherway, very few parts of LI are even set up yet! I live in Jericho, a very "affluent" town, only a mile from Hicksville which is a major node for Cablevision. I have yet to see a single fiber truck anywhere!

I am interested in switching, but can't realistically expect to see this service offered to me before this time next year (if not later).

xirian
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join:2003-01-26
Beacon, NY

xirian

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Re: OMG

It was never on that page. It was on the order page when a LI number was typed in.

Jovi
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I think this applies to anyone in OOL areas that also have the Fios option aswell. The price changes after they insert their phone numbers »[ fiber tech] 30/5 is $54.95!

Ronnie1055
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Carrollton, TX

Ronnie1055

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Not in Texas

I have FIOS and just check mine... nothing has changed from a pricing standpoint. SO... it is NOT a nationwide offering as of yet. :(:(
RiftReaper
join:2002-02-21
Vancouver, WA

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Re: Not in Texas

lmao the 1% of americans are not satisfyed with there 15/2 Services! lmfao who would of guessed! YOU KNOW HOW MANY WOULD DIE TO YOUR THAT SPEED ?

NOCMan
MadMacHatter
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Colorado Springs, CO

NOCMan

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Re: Not in Texas

You have any idea how many already have 100mbps and even 1gbps both ways for less that what we pay for our 15/2mbps plans.

Were so behind the curve it's not even funny.
RiftReaper
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Vancouver, WA

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Re: Not in Texas

gov funded though. you want the gov monitoring your line ??

Shamayim
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Re: Not in Texas

said by RiftReaper:

gov funded though. you want the gov monitoring your line ??
You mean they don't?

fonzbear2000
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Saint Paul, MN
·Verizon Wireless

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said by NOCMan:

You have any idea how many already have 100mbps and even 1gbps both ways for less that what we pay for our 15/2mbps plans.

Were so behind the curve it's not even funny.
where is this offered and what isp?

mesathinks2
@24.48.x.x

mesathinks2

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Re: Not in Texas

Yep. They have great bandwidth, and 7$/Gallon gas prices for the last year as well as other living expenses issues.
Jonbo298
join:2004-01-12
Council Bluffs, IA

Jonbo298

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Now if only

Verizon would expand farther. Paying Cox $55 a month right now for 9/1
the niTz
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Sahuarita, AZ

the niTz

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WOW

i would love 15/2 and low pings, but 30/5 for the price im paying now (cox 9/1), i know ppl who would move for this lol

oliphant
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Corona, CA

oliphant

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Now Verizon...

enters the area of Predatory Pricing as Comcrap has. If they can offer it (30Mb @ $55) there, they should have to offer it in all of their FIOS markets. If they "can't", that is Predatory Pricing and illegal. If they "won't", that is Predatory Pricing and illegal.
Admj
join:2001-01-17
Placentia, CA

Admj

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Re: Now Verizon...

This shows that if there is competition in a market it will drive the prices down. I do agree if they do not offer this in all their markets they are not playing right and should be fined, and forced to offer it all across their networks.

Evergreener
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I have no problem with adjusting pricing to the local market conditions, but what bothers me is that Verizon appears to be willfully redlining their FIOS deployments and nobody seems to give a sh*t.

oliphant
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oliphant

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Re: Now Verizon...

As has been shown here time and time again, there is no redlining, especially here in California. Some of our poorest communities are seeing deployment while the richest sit and wait. Same in New Hampshire.

Cutting prices to defeat competition while other markets get higher prices is illegal unless Verizon can show cause (eg higher costs of delivery of the service).
BVT
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Mount Juliet, TN

BVT

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Re: Now Verizon...

NO it is not illegal. It happens everyday all across the country. This could be considered a "sale", "discount" or whatever you want to call it.

Any store that has multiple chains has individual prices in each geographical store. A good example for you Californians would be the Frys chain. They charge different prices for stuff in different geo-locations.

oliphant
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oliphant

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Re: Now Verizon...

No, it's illegal. What they're doing meets certain criteria making it illegal.

Here is the law...
said by Title 15 :
TITLE 15 > CHAPTER 1 > § 13

§ 13. Discrimination in price, services, or facilities

Release date: 2004-05-18

(a) Price; selection of customers
It shall be unlawful for any person engaged in commerce, in the course of such commerce, either directly or indirectly, to discriminate in price between different purchasers of commodities of like grade and quality, where either or any of the purchases involved in such discrimination are in commerce, where such commodities are sold for use, consumption, or resale within the United States or any Territory thereof or the District of Columbia or any insular possession or other place under the jurisdiction of the United States, and where the effect of such discrimination may be substantially to lessen competition or tend to create a monopoly in any line of commerce, or to injure, destroy, or prevent competition with any person who either grants or knowingly receives the benefit of such discrimination, or with customers of either of them
By selecting a particular market to eliminate a competitor while discriminating (that is not offering the price to others) is Predatory Pricing and illegal. It is illegal to charge different customers different prices for like products unless it can be substantiated that the costs of delivering those products to market is different.

And here in California, all of the Fry's stores have the same prices...so as much as I've seen anyway, especially when it comes to advertisements.

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Phoneman63
join:2001-02-22
Hauppauge, NY

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said by Evergreener:

I have no problem with adjusting pricing to the local market conditions, but what bothers me is that Verizon appears to be willfully redlining their FIOS deployments and nobody seems to give a sh*t.
STOP the Redlining $hit already! I'm a lineman for VZ. How about I take you out for a day and show you some of the neighborhoods I've deployed fiber in. The only redline you will see is a "redline" of blood running down your face after I drop you off in one of the hoods.

pricetweaking
@ny325.fios.verizon.n

pricetweaking

Anon

Price Tweaking

Yeah, that $179-199 price tag had to go... anyways.
But, on the other hand, they should tweak the other 'teir' packages down $5 at least to swath some competitive juices while MEGA rampups in CENTRAL LONG ISLAND and NORTH SHORE towns for deployments. You need to get back to that blitzkreig of deployments asap,

BTW, the price change hasn't materialized on the website.
Where do you see this price change, or is it just rumor?
dariena
join:2005-04-24
Germantown, MD

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Need more competition in Montgomery County, MD!

Oh man I really love the 15/2 FIOS I have... but if I lived in a competitive area where they offered the 30/5 service at that price I'd jump on that in a heartbeat...

competitive00l
@ny325.fios.verizon.n

competitive00l

Anon

pricing

I think pricing is the key here.. although not 'explicitly stated' Optimum Online's advertising seems to suggest that you can get Optimum Online Internet for $29.95 for 1 year
without any other service (but once you read the fine print it does say you need to be a tv customer...)

But are they 'relaxing' this restriction? Can you really get a $49.95 service for $29.95 with a year contract?

If so, cablevision is responding to $14.95 dsl as capped cablevision is about as reliable as the 768 or 1.5megabit dsl... in all reality with the caps on cablemodem usage.
fiberguy2
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fiberguy2

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Who likes this?

Why is this so great? What Veriozon is doing is EVERYTHING that is complained about here.

1) they are only rolling this out to "specific areas" and not foot print wide. This is only as a competition tool. If Comcast or others did this, you all would be screaming bloody murder.

2) They require a "qualifying voice product" and a "term commitment" to get this price. Wait! Isn't this a "penalty" or "blackmale" fees? or non bundle penalty?

You guys that are happy over this are nothing but sell-outs. You show your true colors and lost all resepct. You want the speeds and truly don't care about anything but yourselves.

Can't anyone see that VErizon here is doing everything that you guys hate about the cable companies? Don't you see what happens if and or when they get enough people online at FiOS? Prices go up, and service will go down. They get resolut and don't care anymore. It's the SAME THING that SBC is doing with their so-called $14.95 DSL service. It's to suck enough people awayjust long enough to damage the other guy - and they the other guy is down, SBC jacks the price. They even spell it out for you!

At least Comcast comes clean about what they are selling.

For the record, this message is specifically directed at the Verizon Phone fanboys. Eat it up!

Ass122332143243

Anon

Re: Who likes this?

The only difference between Verizon and cable bundling is that Verizon only charges five extra dollars per month versus 10 dollars for Comcast.
fiberguy2
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fiberguy2

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Re: Who likes this?

No.. no difference.. because the people here would still complain that they were being penalized... The same argument was made on the SBC $14.95 plan.. Also, there is that other little thing called the 1 year contract that Verizon is pushing that Comcast doesn't..

INEEDFIOS
@comcast.net

INEEDFIOS

Anon

*DROOLS*

*DROOLS SOME MORE*

*CONTINUES DROOLING*

WHERE THE HELL IS MY FIOS?
sharkcat313
join:2001-12-01
Fairhope, AL

sharkcat313

Member

30 mbps for $55 in Fairfax Co, VA too

Just checked www.verizonfios.com
Available here too. Requires 1 yr commitment.
pony865
join:2005-02-18
Amityville, NY

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verizon hurry up

hi there
I wish they would speed up! I'm in amity harbor, south emerson ave. come on hurry up
roy
sharkcat313
join:2001-12-01
Fairhope, AL

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In Montgomery Co MD no such price reduction

Price reduced from 199.95/mo to to 179.95/mo vs 54.95/mo in Fairfax Co, Va due to Cox cable offer of 15000/2000. Pathetic Comcast in Mont Co offers only 6000/768 and I never get that. Hardly more than 4mbps. Really stinks.