FiOS buildout is dying

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: dewayne () warpspeed com (Dewayne Hendricks)
Date: March 11, 2010 9:49:23 PM EST
To: Dewayne-Net Technology List <xyzzy () warpspeed com>
Subject: [Dewayne-Net] FiOS buildout is dying

FiOS buildout is dying

[Commentary] Verizon is changing. The company has canceled planned FiOS deployments for all new territories. Instead, 
Verizon "will now focus on installing its network and gaining market share within the areas where it already has 
agreements."

Verizon has buildout commitments to New York and other cities that will keep some crews working, but had already 
suggested they might cut FiOS builds by 2/3rds in 2011. This is now a further cutback, canceling areas that for years 
they had been promising to serve. Verizon's Harry Mitchell sends their perspective. "The bottom line is that Verizon 
said in 2004 we'd build to pass about 18 million homes by year-end 2010, and we're on track to do that with the 
franchises we currently have. Of course, we will also meet any buildout commitments we made in individual jurisdictions 
beyond 2010."

Verizon smells incentives in the National Broadband Plan and ISPs are cutting back their own investment and then 
demanding the government pay them instead. 2009 was almost certainly the worst year in a decade for expanding broadband 
in the U.S. Company after company cancelled firm plans waiting for the government to pay them for what they intended to 
do without subsidy.

<http://fastnetnews.com/dslprime/42-d/2637-fios-buildout-is-dying>

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