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join:2005-06-06
Alexandria, VA | that will be something! I seriously doubt it, but if he does, even for "research" of the competition, that show how much of a threat is fios for them | |
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aztecnology
O Rly?
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MadMANN
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join:2005-08-19
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| Re: that will be something! Umm, WTF? Do people have nothing else better to do?
From the article. . .
a photo of an active Verizon FiOS connection point above Chuck Dolan’s home mailbox My nieghbor had an active cable connection above HIS mailbox for years. He just dropped DirecTv and got hooked up at his house last week!
If they would have gotten a picture of the ONT on his house, that might be a little more interesting.
Either way, I'll just bet whoever took that picture and made a story of it has a wild social life.  | |
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| subman87
Another day in the Brentwood
join:2000-11-24
Harrison, NY |
must be a slow news day. | |
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dslwanter
Why would I want DSL? I have FTTH
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join:2002-12-16
Lowellville, OH
·Armstrong Zoom In..
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| This is stupid I really don't see the big deal. Maybe he wants to understand what he's up against and decide what to do to compete. I run an internet radio station and I listen to other internet radio stations, should someone make a news story out of it?
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join:2001-11-15
Odessa, FL | He's not stupid Why would he want to use his own company's clearly inferior product!
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My views are my own.
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join:2005-05-20
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jjoshua
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join:2001-06-01
Scotch Plains, NJ | Slow news day Or maybe Verizon just converted his POTS service to FIOS. Slow news day indeed. | |
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Fountainhead
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join:2003-10-25
New York, NY
clubs: | Re: Slow news day Or an attempt to create news because this is a non-event.
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majortom1029
@optonline.net | um All Isee is a picture of a connection box then a mail box.
how does this proove that he has fios?
I do not see a picture of a fiber line running to the house. | |
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TOMREHS
@verizon.net | Re: um Verizon's site says the fiber is run underground to the home in most instances. | |
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ablack6596
join:2005-01-28
Scarsdale, NY | Re: um Not in New York. | |
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v35_pilot
Whoops, there goes another AMU
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join:2005-12-12
Fayetteville, NY | Re: um Perhaps downstate that may be true, but in upstate NY the fiber is run underground at a lot of residences. | |
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| Biskit
join:2003-02-07
Fenton, MO | Re: Self-Explanatory? SO you are saying that a Chariman or CEO would be smart enough to know what they are testing? LMAO.....BRB gotta go put a 4-Sale sign on that bridge I am trying to unload. IMO I doubt if he has it, it is for testing purposes, but what do I know. | |
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join:2000-08-21
Glen Burnie, MD
·Verizon Online DSL
| Re: Self-Explanatory? said by Biskit  :SO you are saying that a Chariman or CEO would be smart enough to know what they are testing? LMAO.....BRB gotta go put a 4-Sale sign on that bridge I am trying to unload. IMO I doubt if he has it, it is for testing purposes, but what do I know. Actually, his input would be on par with most of his subscribers that are not tech savvy. Geeks and techies will always go for the latest and greatest but it's the average Joe Modem and Suzy Spreadsheet that make up most of the market. | |
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Jeffrey
too dark too early
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join:2002-12-24
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3 edits | said by Biskit :SO you are saying that a Chariman or CEO would be smart enough to know what they are testing? LMAO.....BRB gotta go put a 4-Sale sign on that bridge I am trying to unload. IMO I doubt if he has it, it is for testing purposes, but what do I know. Say you owned a business, let's say selling "widgets". You're the only widget maker within 100 miles, and you've been making widgets for people for 10 years. All of a sudden, another widget maker suddely appears, and begins taking some of your customers and business away. This new widget maker starts a massive ad compaign to illustrate their alleged better widgets.
You're telling me that you'd ignore him, and you'd do nothing, just keep making the same widgets you had been making all long?
Keep doing that, and you'll be out of the widget business.
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join:2003-02-07
Fenton, MO | Re: Self-Explanatory? LOL....yeah, well if it was a Multi-Million or Billion dollar company the "widget maker" would have people testing it for him while he is at one of his 10 vacation homes! | |
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join:2006-10-17
Kansas City, MO
| Re: Self-Explanatory? Let me tell you something about Chuck Dolan. Unlike the CEO's of the Enron's, Tyco's and Adelphia's of this world (former CEO's that it), Chuck cares about his company and the people that work for him. I know, I worked for Cablevision's IT organization for 5 years.
Chuck is a smart man....this is the guy who actually gave birth to Home Box Office folks. He is considered a true pioneer in his industry.
If Chuck does have FIOS, and knowing him he does, he himself is using the hell out of it.......not some of his "other employees"....although you can bet that there are others on his team testing it as well. For Chuck it has been and will always be about trying to put the absolute BEST product out on the market, having the competitive edge.
No one has...or does, work harder than Chuck. There are very few businessmen left in this world who truly are gentlemen....Chuck is at the top of the list. | |
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packetscan
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join:2004-10-19
Bridgeport, CT
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Matt
Gone playing Dragon Age Origins
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join:2003-07-20
Jamestown, NC | Or... ...perhaps he has a direct fiber connection to the OOL network? Time Warner offers it here.
However, does anyone else think those are awfully decrepit looking mailboxs for the house of the CHARMAIN of Cablevision? | |
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Jon
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join:2001-01-20
Lisle, IL | I'm sure it's a real picture too.. I hear the black plastic mail box with the reflective number stickers is very "In" right now with the 3 million dollar per year execs. | |
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join:2003-02-07
Fenton, MO | Re: I'm sure it's a real picture too.. He is cutting cost!! Isnt he trying to buy back all the public shares and trying to take the company private? See, he needs to save a few dollars! | |
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Pirate515
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join:2001-01-22
Brooklyn, NY
|  Re: I'm sure it's a real picture too..
said by Biskit :He is cutting cost!! Isn't he trying to buy back all the public shares and trying to take the company private? See, he needs to save a few dollars! Stupidest comment ever. Being a Chairman and CEO of Cablevision, he can get all of their services such as iO Gold, OOL and OV for free. I think all of their employees get that perk, not just the executives.
On the other hand, if he did subscribe for any services from Verizon, he will actually have to pay for them.
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join:2003-02-07
Fenton, MO | Re: I'm sure it's a real picture too.. It was a joke, clown, about the picture of the low budget mailbox. Sorry, I forgot its all business around here sorry for making light of the mailbox wont happen again. Use some oil your starting to squeek. | |
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patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY | BS The photo means nothing, where does that fiber go, his neighbor or accross the street? That could be any drop down box. | |
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IGGY
No Guru Just Here To Help
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join:2001-03-30
Chatham, IL
| What does the Insight Communications CEO use I've always asked this question in relation to the CEO of Insight Communications. For years they ( Insight employees ) swore OOL didn't offer the speed that they in fact did. Even after I showed solid proof time and again. Insight's corporate headquarters is in New York. Insightbb of course doesn't service this region. So I've asked time and again which provider the CEO and other Insight New York employees use in that region. As far as I'm aware no one has yet to decide to play honest and come clean with an answer.
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| GLIMMER
join:2004-01-17
Urbana, IL | Re: What does the Insight Communications CEO use here goes iggy again on his ool spree. LOL I had to | |
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| frogli
join:2003-10-12
Yaphank, NY | Dolan lives on a private road up in Bayville and they have a private police force that stops you if you try to go down that road. I doubt that picture is real. | |
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fcisler
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join:2004-06-14
Riverhead, NY | Re: What does the Insight Communications CEO use Somehow, i doubt YOUR comment is real. Private police force...wtf....seriously...where do you people come up with this?!?!?!? | |
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MIKETSG
join:2003-01-20
Naugatuck, CT | Re: What does the Insight Communications CEO use Uh, It's a private community... They have their own security. | |
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join:2001-08-16
Concord, NC
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| said by fcisler :Somehow, i doubt YOUR comment is real. Private police force...wtf....seriously...where do you people come up with this?!?!?!? He is right. The private police force there does stop people from going on the road | |
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NonSensicalLP
@verizon.net | lightpath maybe cablemodem access isn't as secure as it SHOULD be...
Bandwidth wise, he could have as much BW as he wants, theoretically.. | |
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battleop
join:2005-09-28
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| I call BS. I want to see more proof. Maybe he lives out side of their foot print. That fiber very well could be going to his neighbors houses. He probably told them to go with Verizon.
I work for an ISP and when I lived in our foot print I suggested our competition to my next door neighbor. I really didn't want to be his personal 24/7/365 face to face tech support. | |
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PoloDude
Premium,VIP
join:2006-03-29
East Northport, NY | He has it He absolutly has fios. it was installed about 9 months ago. | |
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Tweak
Premium
join:2002-06-08
Oklahoma City, OK
·Cox HSI
| Re: He has it Do you have proof? Can you get Mr Dolans fios bill?
I highly doubt he would subscribe to fios. If he does have fiber to the home it is more than likely a cable vision fiber optic line. I know If I was ceo of a company, I would have several optical carrier lines to my pad  | |
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PoloDude
Premium,VIP
join:2006-03-29
East Northport, NY | Re: He has it What do you want the names of the Techs who did the install too? why is it so hard to believe that he would wnat to check out the compitition? Again, he has it.Fact. | |
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| kingofdsl
join:2002-12-11
Afton, OK | I don't see the big deal.
If there is more than one High Speed connection available I get them both as a back-up.
Very unlikely for both to down at same time unless something major happens very close by. | |
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dvd536
as Mr. Pink as they come
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join:2001-04-27
Phoenix, AZ | upload maybe he likes to upload and doesn't want to be capped! | |
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GeekNJ
Premium
join:2000-09-23
Waldwick, NJ
·Verizon FIOS
| Same info posted in July - 3 months ago... I posted this info back in July...
»Re: [northeast] Latest CV tactic
said by GeekNJ :The Dolan's have FIOS installed. No, I'm not kidding. I have a contact that works for Verizon in FIOS deployments in the NY area. I don't think that's odd at all as many entities purchase/use/test competitor products. As an example, FedEx delivers to UPS every day.
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gar187er
Premium Alcoholic
join:2006-06-24
Dover, DE | Re: Same info posted in July - 3 months ago... verizon ran fiber to every apartment in my complex....for what reason I dont know, to waste money I guess....so I a comcast tech have a strand of fiber on my patio...will I use it? maybe if I ever run out of candles!!! | |
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join:2001-04-24
Port Chester, NY | Re: Same info posted in July - 3 months ago... Please come off your hunches and get fiber. Go FIOS | |
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Bobcat
Volvo sucks donkey balls
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join:2001-02-04
Bedminster, NJ | FiOS TV, too? Hopefully Dolan will get FiOS TV, see the channels that are not available from Cablevision at any price, and decide that we CV customers can be privileged enough to see them, too. | |
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Rob A
Same Old Jets
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join:2005-01-17
Pompton Plains, NJ | Classic If true, that is classic.  | |
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tacouch
Wasn't Me
join:2001-12-26
Chandler, AZ
| LOL at all the posters Guess what that picture is so grainy you can't even tell if its a Fiber line or a copper line.
That splice box looks just like the copper trunk splice sitting above my mothers house and the one sitting in the alley two blocks over from my house that has aerial lines running to all the houses on the block. | |
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Cablevision Chief a Fios Subscriber?
Self-Explanatory?