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Re: Symmetry, DSL, and all that


From: Rob Seastrom <rs () seastrom com>
Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2015 13:25:19 -0500


"Naslund, Steve" <SNaslund () medline com> writes:

From a Verizon press release last summer, all FIOS speeds are now symmetric. 

And no one cares.  I don't even see Verizon commercials crowing about 
how great it is to have symmetry.  If customers loved it that much 
don't you think they would market that way?

You must not get out much.  There's a whole Verizon ad campaign about "half fast Internet".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zr5WWFuJeM4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPqeDokFnok

And no one seems to care about it.  By the way, Verizon commercials
do not run everywhere.  Like Chicago or anywhere else that FIOS is
not available.

So let me get this straight - you conclude that there are no
commercials and opine that nobody cares because you're not seeing FIOS
commercials that talk about how great their symmetry is...  when you
live in a place that there is no FIOS.  It's almost as if someone
knows how to target their marketing dollars isn't it?  Shocking.

Steven Naslund
Chicago IL

Rob Seastrom
Leesburg VA
75 symmetric FIOS, 9.9ms to Equinix.


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