BK3
join:2001-04-10
Geneva, IL | Of course they are ...
Right or wrong, whether you like it or not, any big corp will naturally dump more money into lucrative areas and neglect that has little or no ROI, unless forced to.
This is not saying that I agree, it is just the way things are. |
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CableTool
Poorly Representing MYSELF.
Premium
join:2004-11-12
| Who knows....
I dont know if it is actually pulling money and resources from other areas.
Who is to say, FIOS or not, if that area would be in better shape? It could have been neglected and stayed neglected for some time regardless of what Verizon has going on.
In other news..
HOW DARE YOU POST A NEGATIVE ARTICLE ABOUT FIOS AND VERIZON DSLR!!!! 
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morbo
Complete Your Transaction
join:2002-01-22
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clubs: | don't like it? then do something about it
West Virginia: don't just whine about it. Do something to change the situation like fine Verizon, revoke their license to do business in the state, confiscate their resources and have the state run it. Or sell it to a competitor. |
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Josimars
join:2001-04-24
Port Chester, NY | Lots of Competition
Pity you guys in Westr Virginia, and I don't know if it is true that Verizon is neglecting you but one thing for sure they are having to compete ferociously for customers here in New York and its is only going to get worse. |
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Maxo
Your tax dollars at work.
Premium,VIP
join:2002-11-04
Tallahassee, FL
clubs: | An idea
Take those areas that need to be repaired and just upgrade them. |
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en102
Canadian, eh?
join:2001-01-26
Valencia, CA
 ·RoadRunner Cable
 ·DSL EXTREME
| reply to CableTool
Re: Who knows....
I think if its being 'neglected', than some competition should move in. Wether its cable, muni-wifi or WiMax, or even 3G cellular. If people don't like the service, they'll look somewhere else. I know I did.
I didn't take Comcast, as they were Waay overpriced ($60/month unbundled HSI, while Timewarner will do it for $45), TW took too long to take over Comcast here, so I went for DSL/SBC/ATT/DSLExtreme |
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Thaler
Premium
join:2004-02-02
Encino, CA
| reply to Josimars
Re: Lots of Competition
Yeeg. Some of the wiring photos on the articles are damn well neglectful at best, and almost beg for Murphy's Law to give them a good thrashing. I mean, wrapping a T1 along a private highway fence? Using a trash bag for insulation instead of proper housing? That's just damn shameful matinenance there. |
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dsless
join:2001-05-16
Pittsburgh, PA | Had terrible service from Verzion for 8 years
And this news article is nothing new........And WV will not do much about it. Force Verizon's hand and suddenly Verizon of WV has a for sale sign in the front yard.  |
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dsless
join:2001-05-16
Pittsburgh, PA | reply to Thaler
Re: Lots of Competition
South Hills is a very nice area in Charleston. |
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Thaler
Premium
join:2004-02-02
Encino, CA
| said by dsless  :South Hills is a very nice area in Charleston. Either way, not properly placing wire and/or using inadequate insulation for equipment is piss-poor matinence, nomatter where it happens. |
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viperpa33s
Why Me?
Premium
join:2002-12-20
Bradenton, FL
·Bright House
| Do it all the time
Companies do this all the time. Pulling money from other projects and add it to projects they think they are going to make more money from. As in this case Verizon is taking money away from rural projects and applying it to urban projects.
A side note:
A person I work with, she said Verizon was going around where she lived trying to sign people up for FIOS. Told her that it would be a free install if she wanted it now but if she didn't want it now and wanted it installed later, it would cost her $1,000 to have Verizon install FIOS. She didn't take it and stuck with Comcast due to the fact Comcast has on demand programming. |
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madrhino
join:2004-07-03
 ·Verizon FIOS
·Comcast
| reply to Thaler
Re: Lots of Competition
said by Thaler : That's just damn shameful matinenance there. Verizon has no shame.
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DreamWraith
Premium
join:2004-04-07
Mount Vernon, WA
1 edit | Feet Drag?
They aren't pulling resources here, however, what they ARE doing is not bringing any more resources in. Our entire tri-city area (burlington, mount vernon, and sedro-wooley) washington is maxed/tapped out. They are turning away subscribers, and even asking some people to cancel their service. When asked, they say they plan on bringing in some more infastructure, but not for another year or more, and even then nothing akin to FIOS.
So my question would be this. Why would they bring in more infastructure to support the deprecated copper interface? Why not add on to what in this area is already a fiber based infastructure and imlpement FIOS? Obviously they have an extremely high subscriber rate here, and FIOS would do well.
I can only surmise that they are dragging their feet in the rest of this state because the money they have dumped into the metro and sub-metro area FIOS in and around Seattle isn't doing as well subscriber-wise as they had hoped. |
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deadrelative
@verizon.net | All things relative...
Well, if a several coalminers dont' die a harsh suffocating death, nothing in government gets done.. in WV.. sorry to say it... but true.. |
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PDXPLT
join:2003-12-04
Banks, OR
1 edit | reply to DreamWraith
WV not the only one at the bottom of VZ priorities
'same thing here, if you happen to live in an area where they have no competition. All you'll get is basic phone service, which they are legally obligated to provide to you.
Now, go a couple of miles down the road, where they face competition from Comcast, and it's a whole different ballgame.
This is in stark contrast to Qwest, which actually seems to be making an effort around here to providing something broadband to most of its territory. The city folks ding Qwest because they aren't investing in the latest 'n greatest high-speed in the urban core, put they do seem to be making an effort ot make basic broadband widely available. |
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Toadman
How do you like these Apples
join:2001-11-28
Medina, OH
| Competence of the repair people
I know I will take some flack for this, but most likely they are using local contractors or their own local service groups to do these repairs. I don't see it as taking money away, rather incompetent employees doing the easy way out and in a town/area that this is the norm. Any community that has to put out "permits required" signs when you enter a town speaks volumes and many of these rural WV towns have these. |
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herdfan
Premium
join:2003-01-25
Hurricane, WV
| reply to morbo
Re: don't like it? then do something about it
said by morbo :Do something to change the situation like fine Verizon, .....confiscate their resources and have the state run it. Oh good, God NO!!!
I have no issues with my Verizon service although I wish they would activate my RT with DSL so I can drop cable. Service where I have has been very good, but I also live in the county with the second highest per capita income in the state.
But one of my softball teammates is a line-splice tech with Verizon and he told me about the OT ban, so that part is true. |
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NoOneButMe
join:2001-08-24
TX
·Verizon FIOS
| reply to DreamWraith
Re: Feet Drag?
i live not to far from where thay are releaseing fios in washington state and thay are moving realy slow so i bet it wont be tell 2010 tell thay even talk about that part of the state you would think thay would update old gear 1st but there goin where the money is 1st Bothell Millcreek East Silver Lake all Seattle Hill road ... all thease places are High Income places over 500+$ homes in most cases the homes there allready at are worth over a million easy so ya LOL so thay are picking the money areas blah LOL |
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plk
bo may sleep in loft
Premium
join:2002-04-20
Ogden, IA
|  Wondering: Are the using USF?
I do know all the fine details of the USF, but are they using these fund to pay for the buildout of city fiber and down the road, will they collect more and still to deploy in rural areas?
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Nuts
join:2006-04-27
Forest, OH | reply to dsless
Re: Had terrible service from Verzion for 8 years
The FOR SALE signs are already out |
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