Verizon continues to expand broadband everywhere except in Boston
By adamg - Thu, 02/28/2008 - 4:50pm.
Verizon to spend $200M to expand networks:
... Cupelo said the company has experimented with FiOS deployments in parts of Dorchester, but it does not have any immediate plans to bring it to all of Boston. ...
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Why would they bring it to
Why would they bring it to Boston? Here the infrastructure costs would quickly paid for by the multitude of subscribers (college kids), but those same subscribers will heavily use the service. Smarter to go to the 'burbs where Junior uses it for three hours a night ...
Obviously, Verizon will go with the second. It takes longer to recover the initial cost of upgrading the tubez, but in the long run they'll come out ahead.
$#*(& telcos.
must be nice to sit on the 5
must be nice to sit on the 5 or so billion MA gave them to build just this sort of thing....
Apparently they dont have
Apparently they dont have the logistics of how to do apartment/condos worked out yet. I wish they would get it together though, I've been wanting to get off Comcrap since the day I got it
Currently happy with ComCrapst
That's because they came and hooked up our new neighbors to the cable system, and guess what? We suddenly have all the channels! Previously, we had only the most minimal package because we had to to get the broadband service. Of course we are only paying for that still.
I told husband that it may not be all good if it means I further develop my HGTV addiction, and then they cut us off.