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Re: They have been running out of modems!

said by hopeflicker See Profile :

said by tshirt See Profile :
They current tier pricing is what it is because {1 it is above the cost of providing the service (we call that return on investment/profit)

If that's the case then Verizon must but losing money big time.
I call greed on this one.
Verizon is losing money on FiOS right now. Just a couple months ago were showing only a 16% adoption rate on the service, which isn't nearly good enough to justify the rollout expense.

The driver behind footing the expense was being able to get into the video services market, not providing higher upload speeds. HSI alone wouldn't deliver any kind of reasonable ROI for Verizon.
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 If they're anything like me, then those who could "adopt" Verizon's FiOS TV (or triple play) don't do so solely because they just KNOW Verizon's going to screw-up their monthly bill once they move off of having just FiOS (or any single service). Once Verizon shows me they have the billing for their bundles straightened out, then I'll jump all over their TV product (though I doubt I'll ever use their phone service again, unless it's effectively free, as in, 3 for the price of 2).
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