[opendtv] Re: Frames Per Second of 720P

Perhaps they are worried about copper thieves?

I've heard you complain about the demark being inside the home.  I happened
to talk to a Verizon rep (from Apple Valley, CA) a few weeks ago, and her
husband, a former mechanic, now a FIOS installer.

FIOS provides something like 324 MB/second to the home.  Have you, in your
professional career, ever seen a fiber demark outside a building?  I have
only seen fiber demarks inside buildings, and they were always powered from
the shore, not through the fiber.

The reality is that primary lines across the nation went down 2.6% in 2Q
2008, and will only continue to decline, and only a small part of that is
due to FIOS.  Copper is legacy and too expensive to support.  You should
anticipate paying serious money in the future to keep copper.

John Willkie

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Enviado el: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 12:05 PM
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Asunto: [opendtv] Re: Frames Per Second of 720P

Verizon Fios is falling flat because of  the company's sales tactics.

Although they denied this in a consumer action news report on the local 
Philadelphia ABC affiliate last week, you have to beat them over the 
head to sign up for Fios TV AND  still keep your wire phone service 
instead of having it switched to fiber.

In fact to get Fios that way you have to pay for the new service monthly 
with a credit card instead of having it appear on the verizon bill with 
your phone line.

The reason is Verizon [and probably others] want to move all your  
services to fiber is so they can then sell your  copper line to another 
phone company. If you decide to go for everything on fiber, then change 
your mind later, you can't go back to your copper line because [they 
claim] it's been sold and no longer exists as a Verizon system product.

Another problem with Fios is that Verizon wants to install a fiber to 
RF/phone line converter unit *inside your home* and power
it from your electric utility service. It can't be installed outside 
[Verizon claims.] Other utilities place their disembarcation equipment 
outside your home.

If  you decide to discontinue Fios service Verizon makes it extremely 
difficult to get your copper phone line placed back in service and get 
the Fios equipment removed without paying a considerable removal charge. 
Verizon denied all this in the CH 6 report on TV last week. Their 
official policy may be very different from how they coach their Fios 
sales force to operate.

I had a long conversation about all these points with a Verizon sales 
person and finally told them there was no way I would ever become a Fios 
customer as long as their sales tactics were so consumer unfriendly.


 
 
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