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| The Usual B.S. between Verizon and NJBPU
From the Star Ledger article:
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"As we said a couple of months ago, we are rolling out some fiber to a handful of Bergen County towns, but the scope of the project has been greatly scaled back," said Rich Young, a spokesman for Verizon New Jersey. "We would clearly love for New Jersey to be part of this fiber-to-the-premises, but as we have consistently said, the wholesale rates are too low. The company is investing in fiber deployment in states with the best investment climate."
Once again, the NJBPU takes a myopic view of ILECs/CLECs to the ultimate detriment of NJ consumers. Verizon's true competitors are the cable service providers, as they are the only other major players with the necessary infrastructure to deliver voice, data, and video to the home.
I was also under the impression that one of the motivators for Verizon and the other ILECs to deploy FTTH was that they would not have to lease this new network to CLECs. If that is the case, then it makes little sense for Verizon to balk over wholesale copper twisted-pair rates in NJ; they should transition to fiber and decommission (or sell off) their copper ASAP, thereby making the CLEC "issue" moot.
- Dan
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