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My understanding is Verizon has abandoned fiber-to-the-home and sold off the franchise to Frontier Communications. (Assumedly they still maintain a fiber backbo

by Raphael 16y ago

My understanding is Verizon has abandoned fiber-to-the-home and sold off the franchise to Frontier Communications. (Assumedly they still maintain a fiber backbone to serve their wireless networks.)

Retric 16y ago
"While Frontier's $8.5 billion acquisition of six million users consists largely of DSL and landline customers, there are roughly 100,000 FiOS customers that also have been transitioned to Frontier" "At the end of the last quarter, we had 3.4 million FiOS Internet customers and 2.9 million FiOS TV customers. " http://forums.verizon.com/t5/Verizon-at-Home/FiOS-Where-We-Stand/ba-p/172689 http://forums.verizon.com/t5/Verizon-at-Home/FiOS-Where-We-S... So, I think that works out to ~3% of FIOS customers. IMO, selling off their DSL customers is probably a mixed bag. They are getting ~1500$ per customer in a vanishing market so it sounds like a great deal. But, up selling service to existing customers is probably less expensive overall.