obeythelaw
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join:2003-04-16
Bayonne, NJ | Screw Verizon I'm from NJ. If Verizon wants to play hardball, let 'em. Verizon is all talk. Screw them! | |
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fuhgedabodit
@optonline.net | Re: Screw Verizon It's called municipal fiber deployment, taxpayer funded.
Get it started, you have a democratic governer who spends money right, get on the wire in NJ! | |
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NPGMBR
join:2001-03-28
Arlington, VA
| Re: Screw Verizon Well to be honest I can understand where VZ is coming from. If federal and local governments put the same restrictions on VZ fiber as they do on VZ copper then there is no point in trying to deploy the technology because it would force VZ to share the lines it deployed with rivals who mostly likely won't pay enough to help off-set the cost of purchasing and laying down the lines.
If I were the President at VZ, I'd do the same thing. | |
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Phil
Rojo Sol
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join:2001-06-11
Camarillo, CA
 ·Verizon FIOS
| Re: Screw Verizon said by NPGMBR  :
Well to be honest I can understand where VZ is coming from. If federal and local governments put the same restrictions on VZ fiber as they do on VZ copper then there is no point in trying to deploy the technology because it would force VZ to share the lines it deployed with rivals who mostly likely won't pay enough to help off-set the cost of purchasing and laying down the lines.
If I were the President at VZ, I'd do the same thing.
Very good point.
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| edelite
join:2004-05-24
US | Gov. James McGreevey doesn't seem to want to respond lately. Wrote him a letter about this though... | |
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edelite
join:2004-05-24
US | Isn't this called BLACKMAIL? | |
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| BizFinancing
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join:2003-01-10
Port Orchard, WA | Re: Screw Verizon More like extortion | |
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Marilla
I Am My Own Arbiter
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join:2002-12-06
Belpre, OH | Re: Screw Verizon Actually, it's neither.. buy hey! who cares about details and facts and the meaning of words! | |
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lesopp
join:2001-06-27
Land O Lakes, FL | So they are "poised" to deploy fiber. Well I am "poised" to win the lottery.
Who will get done first. | |
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Marilla
I Am My Own Arbiter
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join:2002-12-06
Belpre, OH
| Re: Screw Verizon said by lesopp :
So they are "poised" to deploy fiber. Well I am "poised" to win the lottery.
Who will get done first.
They will... long, long before you.
Plus, it seems they are already deploying it, actually. Imagine that... you got your first annuity payment yet?
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orldf
@verizon.net
| The alternative is do it yourself. I think its quite fair to make the same restrictions that exist on cable, 'hands off' and they certainly paid for this technology out of their own budget, not with 'help' from the government(s).
So yes I agree, they deserve to make a return, and its going to be a slow return on their money. They aren't listing exorbitant rates and with some work cable might even manage to keep up to some degree, sort of reversing the relationship that cable has to dsl now.
Given the cost, the investment, and so forth, I think they are pursuing a fair set of legislations. Additionally if someone wants to pay them 1.5x the price to resell it, that seems fair to me too. After all those folks invested nothing.
I don't disagree with the actions, and I'd look forward to seeing fiber at our house. | |
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