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It's the NIMBYs. No one wants their property torn up to install the stuff. Same for the wireless providers. People get pissed when a large cell phone tower is p
by adestefan 16y ago
It's the NIMBYs. No one wants their property torn up to install the stuff. Same for the wireless providers. People get pissed when a large cell phone tower is placed anywhere near their home.
I pay $45 for 25/5 FIOS and never have a problem streaming Netflix in HD to my TiVo. That's over 802.11G wireless too.
- ericd 16y agoFIOS is the happy exception to the rampant crappiness in the US broadband ISP field. Unfortunately, it never seems to be available. My parents in rural MD have had it for years, but it hasn't been available in my past three apartments in NYC, two in the Bay Area, or one in the LA area. Instead, I've been stuck with inconsistent on-and-off service from cable providers who are all basically the same except in name.
- adestefan 16y agoWe seemed to have lucked out with FIOS in MD. Just about the entire central part of the state is covered. The exception seems to be Baltimore city. FIOS has also helped to push competition with Comcast here too.
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- qq66 16y agoUnfortunately FIOS is a commercial failure and is not being expanded to new markets. So SF etc. are permanently out for FIOS.
- ericd 16y agoSource? If this is true, I'm really, really disappointed. FIOS was really the one bright spot in my life as an ISP customer, to the point where I've considered investing a week or two into adding a FIOS availability overlay on PadMapper (which would probably go unused except for me) so I could find an apartment with it next time without polling their ridiculous address entry form a thousand times manually.
- jsz0 16y agohttp://www.dslreports.com/shownews/So-Is-This-Where-Verizons-FiOS-Deployment-Ends-107342 http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/So-Is-This-Where-Verizons... It's not a technical failure but just a reality of the economy and increased competition from cable with DOCSIS 3. To the same point cable has backed away from FTTx deployments. (not that they were ever that committed in the first place but most had serious plans on the drawing boards for the near future)
- ericd 16y agoThanks very much. That's disheartening, but I suppose it makes sense if they thought they could just be selectively one-upped by the cable companies in every area they entered. That the cable companies are basically holding areas hostage that way is a pretty good argument for public internet infrastructure, though.
- RP_Joe 16y agoThe telcos have been charging for over 20 years to upgrade their system. Its a scandal. http://www.newnetworks.com/roadmap.html http://www.newnetworks.com/roadmap.html
- Zev 16y agoAnything more verifiable than an "industry analyst"?
- adestefan 16y agoThey're only expanding into markets where they can get a local cable franchise agreement. They need both Internet and TV customers to make it worth the initial deployment costs. This has been the big hold up in Baltimore. Comcast has such a strangle hold on the Baltimore city council that they refuse to give a franchise agreement to Verizon.
- Qz 16y agoI would just about sell my soul to get on FiOS instead of comcast here in Pittsburgh. I was looking into CLEAR, but then I read about them throttling anyone who downloaded more than 8 gigs in a month, so that was straight out. Way to nerf the entire point of WiMAX guys.
- khafra 16y agoFIOS is supposedly available here, but the only variety I've seen offered is a $99/month bundle with TV and telephone, both of which are useless to me. What's the secret password to get 25/5 for $45/month?
- adestefan 16y agoBe a customer since 2007 and keep calling for the higher rates at the same price. I'm also grandfathered into the old TV plans. I refuse to switch to the new ones since I'll get less channels at the same price. You really need to call them. What you find online is nothing compared to the deals you can get over the phone.