The Press Realizes The FiOS Party Is Over

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: dewayne () warpspeed com (Dewayne Hendricks)
Date: April 1, 2010 7:35:56 PM EDT
To: Dewayne-Net Technology List <xyzzy () warpspeed com>
Subject: [Dewayne-Net] The Press Realizes The FiOS Party Is Over

The Press Realizes The FiOS Party Is Over
But doesn't quite see the bigger picture yet...
12:01PM Tuesday Mar 30 2010 by Karl Bode
<http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/The-Press-Realizes-The-FiOS-Party-Is-Over-107639>

We've been covering Verizon's decision to suspend FiOS deployment in many neighborhoods for much of the last month, 
discussing how cities like Alexandria, Virginia and Baltimore, Maryland are more than a little annoyed that they won't 
be getting upgraded from last-generation DSL. The company is continuing builds in cities that have signed franchise 
agreements, but for all intent and purposes -- the great FiOS experiment has ended -- prematurely. This week we finally 
saw the press wake up to the news of FiOS's grinding halt after the Associated Press noticed what was going on. Most of 
the coverage repeats some variation of Verizon's position that they never promised you, the users, full coverage:

Verizon never committed to bringing FiOS to its entire local-phone service area. It has introduced FiOS in 16 states, 
but the deployment is concentrated on the East Coast, and Verizon is selling off most of its service areas in the 
Midwest and on the West Coast. Its stated goal was to make FiOS available to 18 million households by the end of 2010, 
and it's on track to reach or exceed that.
While it's true that Verizon never promised to deploy FiOS to their entire footprint, the AP doesn't tell you the telco 
was previously planning to deploy FiOS to cities like Baltimore and Alexandria, and this freeze is a change of plans. 
Verizon originally hoped to pass about 85% of their available customers through several deployment waves. Right now, 
Verizon's own data suggests that 48% of all Verizon-served homes are passed (this doesn't always mean service is 
available) by FiOS.

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