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Verizon blows, Cablevision sucks
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join:2001-02-04
Bedminster, NJ | Digital video Of course they added digital video subscribers -- Cablevision took away a bunch of analog channels, forcing people to subscribe to digital video if they wanted to continue receiving those channels. | |
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TK Junk Mail
Go ahead, make my day
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join:2002-03-03
Margate City, NJ
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July 31st, @12:32PM
| Re: Digital video said by Bobcat  :Of course they added digital video subscribers -- Cablevision took away a bunch of analog channels, forcing people to subscribe to digital video if they wanted to continue receiving those channels. Technology marches on. Analog is going away - and it isn't coming back. To provide all those HD channels everyone demands they have no choice but to kill off analog channels and move them to digital.
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Bobcat
Verizon blows, Cablevision sucks
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join:2001-02-04
Bedminster, NJ | Re: Digital video I'm just explaining why the number of video subscribers went up. It has nothing to do with Cablevision holding off the competition. | |
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comcastterritory
@verizon.net | Re: Digital video Wonder how Comcast is holding up to FIOS? Where I am there's Verizon trucks here ever day converting more customers over. Must have taken about 40-50% of the area by now and it's only been available for about 6 months. | |
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join:2006-11-20
Farmingdale, NY | Explaining or assuming? | |
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Kyle
join:2003-10-15
Toledo, OH | Re: Digital video assuming | |
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Teen
@ca.us
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TK Junk Mail
| said by TK Junk Mail :said by Bobcat : Technology marches on. Analog is going away - and it isn't coming back. To provide all those HD channels everyone demands they have no choice but to kill off analog channels and move them to digital. Good job completely missing the point | |
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wave_sailor
join:2001-04-23
Bloomingdale, NJ
clubs: | And FiOS isn't available in some places, so an option is Cablevision. | |
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curls310
join:2007-09-26
Hillsdale, NJ | damn you dolans Give us FIOS people MSG in HD. | |
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bigppapap3312
@verizon.net | Re: damn you dolans the knicks suck, and the hockey games dont look any better in hd | |
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join:2007-09-26
Hillsdale, NJ | Re: damn you dolans I want it to watch other teams pound the Knicks... | |
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hobgoblin
Sortof Agoblin
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join:2001-11-25
Orchard Park, NY
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| said by bigppapap3312 :
the knicks suck, and the hockey games dont look any better in hd
Hockey is AWESOME in HD.
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meh37
@verizon.net | Re: damn you dolans Maybe he's referring to the hockey team(s) and not the delivered picture?  | |
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Kyle
join:2003-10-15
Toledo, OH | if you want 'em in HD use their service - or tuff shit. be glad you're getting the MSG channel. | |
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dealing3000
join:2001-06-14
Chatham, NJ
 ·Verizon FIOS
·Optimum Online
| Makes sense to me I just ditched my FIOS internet only for the CV triple play. In the end I pay $50+ less for the first year of service than what I was paying CV, Verizon and Vonage. I have to pay the $99 ETF from Verizon but CV even kicked in half of that.
All of this because when I called CV to cancel and move to FIOS triple play they discounted the hell out of everything to keep me (free HD DVR, Free boost, etc). What did Verizon do when I called them? All they asked was if I was sure if I wanted to cancel. I was like "Hell yeah I'm sure". It consts Verizon around 800 to hook me up and they got maybe $320 out of me over the past 6 months.
It comes down to who wants your business the most. In my case it was CV. In a year when my triple play price is up I will just play the game again. It helps that I already have the ONT on my house as well. | |
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join:2000-08-25
New York
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| Re: Makes sense to me CV is giving their shit away 'cause they know they've sucked for long now, and FiOS in NYC by 2014 spells trouble.
In today's economic times who wouldn't play the game anyway.
Verizon didn't budge now 'cause it's a new popular product. Let it become as unpopular as a landline and you'll see otherwise. | |
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n2jtx
join:2001-01-13
Glen Head, NY
·Optimum Online
| One Added CV Benefit CV is installing wireless access points all around the island. There are at least three here in my home town that I have found so far and others where I work in Babylon and along Main Street in Farmingdale. They are free to all OOL subscribers (you signon with your OOL email id and password). Verizon has nothing comparable to that yet.
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Kyle
join:2003-10-15
Toledo, OH
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| Re: One Added CV Benefit didnt VZ put up Wifi before at payphones all over NYC but later take them down? You would think that would be a great use for the copper thats there sitting after they strip the phone out.
You would think that would be a smart most for the telcos. | |
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meh37
@verizon.net
| Just wondering... Is this "competition" based on FCC data? you know, where if a provider hits anywhere in a zip code/zone, then it's assumed to be everywhere in that zip code/zone? (FiOS is still building out in most places.)
Generally, people leave one provider for another provider because they're unhappy with the first provider: price, quality, whatever. If Cablevision keeps their customers happy, why would they leave for FiOS or anything else (especially for marginal benefits)?
The next quarter is always going to be an unknown, and probably different. | |
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tmc8080
join:2004-04-24
Floral Park, NY
| one vs. the next $89.90 vs
$95 + taxes & fees
Granted the services aren't exactly the same but similar. Those on a tight budget will go for the cheaper service. With $4 gasoline, who's not on a tight budget in NY Metro. Verizon will have a problem of $135 vs $100. (yes, about $40 added svc charges for triple play with Veizon). This is due to franchise and POTS taxes much lamented about in other threads.
Still, FIOS is a great service, but not without its flaws and at times erroneous billing. Still, make sure you get the best deal you can whichever company that may be, and hold them to high quality service (get what you pay for). If that means year over year switching from one provider to the other, so be it. | |
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majortom1029
join:2006-10-19
Lindenhurst, NY
| hmm The cablevision area wide wifi thing could be ahuge advantage to cablevision. Verizon will have to come up with something similiar. i was looking to move to fios til li heard this plan. Internet everywhere on long island is more important to me then better tv quality since i use the internet a whole lot more. | |
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lightpath guy
@optonline.net | across the board Check out the growth going on at Lightpath! 20% almost every quarter! | |
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Cablevision Holds Up To FiOS Competition
