CPM
join:2001-08-24
Miami, FL
1 edit | History of the World: Part I
A quote from the movie History of the World: Part I "F the poor" |
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joebear29
join:2003-07-20
Alabaster, AL | Yeah, the poor are dying for Verizon video service. |
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mglunt
join:2001-09-10
Fredericksburg, VA
 ·Verizon FIOS
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I know, I know...
To make sure Verizon isn't flushing money down the toilet wiring poor neighborhoods for FIOS, the Government should pay for their access. Those poor, poor people.... how will they survive without 15Mbps/2Mbps Internet service. |
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ronpin
Imagine Reality
join:2002-12-06
Nirvana | Keller's "poor" areas do have FiOS -- come see.
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Lord protect me from your followers |
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flushls
join:2004-11-02
Joyce, WA | Yeah but when if Verizon going to wire oakcliff, and Un-Pleasant Grove.
ALl those meth heads could use a faster connection.
Flushls |
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ronpin
Imagine Reality
join:2002-12-06
Nirvana | Uhhh...isn't S. Dallas SBC land? |
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calvoiper
join:2003-03-31
Belvedere Tiburon, CA | reply to joebear29
I thought the problem was that they were dying for lack of Verizon video....
calvoiper
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VoIP--the death knell of remaining voice monopolies! |
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davoice
join:2000-08-12
Saxapahaw, NC
 ·Comporium
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Basically just the city of Dallas and most of Dallas County (which is a huge swath of land) is SBC territory. Most of the burbs are Verizon. There are a couple tiny spots where SBC is actually a CLEC in Verizon territory (Austin Ranch for example) and viceaversa.
And if you're in the burbs and don't have FIOS, you're screwed. B/c all the Verizon territory here used to be GTE. Verizon has been steadily upgrading the crap that GTE left them holding, but there are still quite a few COs that have no DSL and many that have DSL are still doing DSL over frame relay instead of ATM. For those who never dealt with DSL over frame relay in GTE territory... the normal package is 768x128. And you could pay the big money and get 1.5x256. Only the COs that have been upgraded to ATM can get Verizon's current specials and decent speed.
Aside from the fact that Keller is in Verizon HQ's backyard, one of the major reasons they were the first test install for FIOS was that what GTE had left there was mostly installed during the recession of the 80's and was pure crap. Putting FIOS there not only made sense demographically and made them look pretty, it also got them out of maintaining a big copper mess forever.
- Davoice |
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homeofthe145k
@verizon.n
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The average home in the united states of america goes for $200,000+ If you live in a 145,000$ home (ahem, trailerpark quality or ultra LOOW income hud/free construction labor) verizon is not interested in you.. sorry to say.. Redlining aside, most people make this into a racial issue but its really the poor white people (still the majority) that would be screwed by redlining of poor communities-- otherwise what your really talking about it racial profiling, a more illegal action prosecuteable by state attorney's general($).... |
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CPM
join:2001-08-24
Miami, FL | Well, we now know why alot of people are not home owers. Most people can not afford it. |
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