MrSpock29
join:2008-02-09
Hammonton, NJ
| reply to JeepMatt
Re: I wish...
said by JeepMatt  :It certainly doesn't look like folks are swarming to FIOS TV in "droves" like the forum fanboys state...  Out of 1.2 million fios tv customers, 262,000 were added in the last quarter alone. If they managed that same rate for the whole year, that would be over 1 million new fios tv customers this year, after ending last year with 1 million total. Yes, the base number is small, but still good penetration. |
Ulmo
join:2005-09-22
San Jose, CA
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| said by MrSpock29 :said by JeepMatt :It certainly doesn't look like folks are swarming to FIOS TV in "droves" like the forum fanboys state... Out of 1.2 million fios tv customers, 262,000 were added in the last quarter alone. If they managed that same rate for the whole year, that would be over 1 million new fios tv customers this year, after ending last year with 1 million total. Yes, the base number is small, but still good penetration. Loving fiber as I do, I pay attention and don't want it misinterpreted. Anyway, I think a potential big reason for adding those TV things lately is that infrastructure and TV rollout schedules are different: infrastructure is physical and has a physically moderated dollar-to-capability ratio that varies in a rather benign way. However, looking in terms of short term things, their TV rollout has been done substantially after their fiber rollout, and has been done on a more local-level political schedule, and lately a lot of that politics has been coming together in groups across the nation. As a result, the politics of TV in fiber has been turning it on in the past quarter much more so than in other periods. Therefore, the availability of TV in FiOS (FiOS TV) has shot up much, much, much, much faster over the last quarter or two than FiOS as a whole, since the fiber was sitting there just waiting for TV to come along, and to a major extent, that is borne out by how the potential customers react too.
So, the TV numbers need to be done in ratio to how much FiOS TV is available at any given moment, and you have to realize that the availability just jumped up in grandiose rate ratios to the actual FiOS layout amounts &/or rates.
That the FiOS TV availability suddenly going way up then caused the FiOS TV subscription to also go way up is by itself a positive sign for that service, of course, but much less so than such an activity if the FiOS TV availability itself was more like the general FiOS availability rates.
FWIW, I haven't checked the penetration rate claim you made. My impression is that the Verizon FiOS project, including all (telephone, internet, TV), has been going on moderately well: response is good enough that they can continue profitably, but it's not like just dumping everybody's bank account into the telco's coffers. Of course, that's a weak impression, so I could be way off.
What keeps it exciting is its future potential, and the potential for Verizon to either use or not use such potential. |
