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[ NNSquad ] The Press Realizes The FiOS Party Is Over
----- Forwarded message from David Farber <dave@farber.net> ----- Date: Sat, 3 Apr 2010 18:55:25 -0400 From: David Farber <dave@farber.net> Subject: [IP] The Press Realizes The FiOS Party Is Over Reply-To: dave@farber.net To: ip <ip@v2.listbox.com> Begin forwarded message: From: dewayne@warpspeed.com (Dewayne Hendricks) Date: April 1, 2010 7:35:56 PM EDT To: Dewayne-Net Technology List <xyzzy@warpspeed.com> Subject: [Dewayne-Net] The Press Realizes The FiOS Party Is Over The Press Realizes The FiOS Party Is Over But doesn't quite see the bigger picture yet... 12:01PM Tuesday Mar 30 2010 by Karl Bode <http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/The-Press-Realizes-The-FiOS-Party-Is-Over-107639> We've been covering Verizon's decision to suspend FiOS deployment in many neighborhoods for much of the last month, discussing how cities like Alexandria, Virginia and Baltimore, Maryland are more than a little annoyed that they won't be getting upgraded from last-generation DSL. The company is continuing builds in cities that have signed franchise agreements, but for all intent and purposes -- the great FiOS experiment has ended -- prematurely. This week we finally saw the press wake up to the news of FiOS's grinding halt after the Associated Press noticed what was going on. Most of the coverage repeats some variation of Verizon's position that they never promised you, the users, full coverage: Verizon never committed to bringing FiOS to its entire local-phone service area. It has introduced FiOS in 16 states, but the deployment is concentrated on the East Coast, and Verizon is selling off most of its service areas in the Midwest and on the West Coast. Its stated goal was to make FiOS available to 18 million households by the end of 2010, and it's on track to reach or exceed that. While it's true that Verizon never promised to deploy FiOS to their entire footprint, the AP doesn't tell you the telco was previously planning to deploy FiOS to cities like Baltimore and Alexandria, and this freeze is a change of plans. Verizon originally hoped to pass about 85% of their available customers through several deployment waves. Right now, Verizon's own data suggests that 48% of all Verizon-served homes are passed (this doesn't always mean service is available) by FiOS. [snip]RSS Feed: <http://www.warpspeed.com/wordpress> ------------------------------------------- Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com ----- End forwarded message -----