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Just remember that if you're ever in the position of having to press Verizon up against the wall, they're legally obligated to fix the outside plant, whether co
by doctorshady 11y ago
Just remember that if you're ever in the position of having to press Verizon up against the wall, they're legally obligated to fix the outside plant, whether copper or fiber.
They're also obligated to provide you with non-VoIP (marketed under things like the Verizon Freedom package) phone service over fiber. The service is implemented much better, and since it's legally phone service, is obligated to meet a certain quality standard and be fixed in a certain length of time if it breaks.
In any case, it really does piss me off to see how far the telecom market has sunk. A lot of these companies have never gotten over the monopoly mindset, and really do nothing other than hold themselves back in every way possible.
It's times like these, I kinda want to go buy one of these markets Verizon has effectively abandoned, and put the whole industry to shame.
- mcherm 11y ago> I kinda want to go buy one of these markets Verizon has effectively abandoned, and put the whole industry to shame. The Google Fiber experiment has proven that if you put the whole (US) industry to shame in an incredibly public way that gets covered multiple times by just about every news outlet in the country... that it will have no effect at all on the entrenched players (except perhaps causing them to lower their prices in the areas you serve in order, I suppose, to harm your income).
- vitd 11y agoPlease do! I'm on FiOS right now, and apparently Verizon doesn't want to have to maintain it, so they've sold it to Frontier who I've read are terrible and also won't do anything new with it. I would love to have a non-TimeWarner/AT&T option that's as fast as FiOS.