Verizon FiOS Comes To DC Franchise agreement just needs DC mayor to sign While their effort to bring FiOSTV to Philadelphia stalls, Verizon is just one signature away from being able to offer FiOSTV in Washington DC. Verizon's deal with DC requires that the telco wire the entire city in nine years, but like their deal with New York City, the agreement does give Verizon some latitude in extending that deadline. All that's left now is to get the deal signed by DC mayor Adrian Fenty. According to a Verizon press release, the first DC customers will be able to sign up for service "within a year."
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 | | Done? Wouldn't this area already be wired with fiber?
I mean, it is Washington DC after all.
Sounds like an easy job for Verizon. | |
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Lake Zurich, IL | Re: Done? One of the oldest cities in the nation that's home to all our most corrupt politicians???? It's not like their infrastructure is an oasis of modernization or anything... | |
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| Re: Done? said by jester121:One of the oldest cities in the nation that's home to all our most corrupt politicians???? It's not like their infrastructure is an oasis of modernization or anything... Yeah ... no. There are some republicans who live in georgetown (hardly DC culturally). Most over seem to live outside proper (which is nice). | |
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Lake Zurich, IL | Re: Done? I didn't mean "home" as in that's where their homes are.  | |
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New York, NY | said by utahluge:Wouldn't this area already be wired with fiber? I mean, it is Washington DC after all. Sounds like an easy job for Verizon. Not at all, the infrastructure in DC is very old. On top of that it practically takes an act of Congress to get any street work done there. The city has very strict and prohibitive rules about doing anything.
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| | | | | Re: Done? Possibly, but probably the Fiber there can't exactly have public traffic on it. | |
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| said by wifi4milez:On top of that it practically takes an act of Congress to get any street work done there. Which is why the residents of DC need some form of voting rights. We are a district, why no house rep?
The city has very strict and prohibitive rules about doing anything.
What you're thinking of is the fact that DC has a no aerial lines rule for most of the city. Exempt are NW and parts of SE. Which is why RCN can offer cable in those areas.
It's only interesting when you consider how DC did street cars back in the day. They were mostly powered via the track on the ground. | |
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New York, NY | Re: Done? said by whfsdude:What you're thinking of is the fact that DC has a no aerial lines rule for most of the city. Exempt are NW and parts of SE. Which is why RCN can offer cable in those areas. I am specifically referring to a fiber build I had done down there about a month ago. The city requires that if you do any street work at all, you must completely tear up and repave (with cobblestones in some places!) the entire section of the street, even the part you didnt touch. Furthermore, manholes in DC arent 'common areas' like they are in many other cities; each manhole belongs to a given carrier or utility. This means that in addition to tearing up and repaving the section of the street you are running fiber down, you then also need to do the same for your manhole placement.
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1 edit | said by whfsdude:Which is why the residents of DC need some form of voting rights. We are a district, why no house rep? I know this is WAY OT, but what the heck. Constitutionally they're not allowed to have one. The US capital is not allowed to be a state, and as such has no such provisions at the federal level. They have a delegate in Congress, and she can engage in floor debate, but she can't vote for anything. Even for presidential elections it took a Constitutional ammendment to allow residents to cast a ballot on election day. Electoral votes are allocated by congressional representations - every state gets at least 3 EVs, because every state has 2 senators and at least one member of the house. As a result, DC initially has no EVs, which means that you couldn't really vote for president if you lived in the city. An ammendment changed that, allocating 3 EVs automatically to the city.
There have been pushes for statehood, and allowing for representation in Congress, but doing that would require either:
a) a constitutional ammendment or
b) a reallocation of the city
On that second one, what they would do is make the area covered by Capitol Hill, the White House, and the rest of the mall the new US Capital (there's nothing in the Constitution that says that the whole city has to be the capital). The surrounding area would either become its own state, or reabsorbed back into VA and MD. | |
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New Windsor, NY | Every piece of fiber in the FiOS network for the "local loop" is brand new. There has also been a huge amount of new inter-office fiber placed as well. | |
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