Comments on: Verizon plans more Fios for cities

Verizon COO Denny Strigl says the company will target more large cities as it deploys its Fios fiber-to-the-home broadband and video service.

[Lerianis]

They need to start pushing Fios out to rural areas, not just big cities. Give the cable companies some well needed competition.

[Bob_Katopolis]

Verizon... please come to Silicon Valley. You are my local phone company here in Los Gatos. But you can go anywhere in Silicon Valley with your statewide franchise agreement. The place is perfect... a high density of homes, lots of money, and nothing but crappy cable and DSL. Your subscription rates would be phenomenal here... no doubt. Please!

[AndrewRich]

How about some FiOS in the freakin' technology capitol of the world? No, we're stuck between Comcast and AT&T.

[coover]

Hey Verizon Big Wigs,

If you check your unfullfilled requests for service, I'm sure you will find many in Running Springs, CA. We're not a big city, but you'll do well competing with Charter Cable. That's why I have Verizon land line service, Verizon cell phone service, Verizon DSL. But Charter (ech) has the only TV service in town. Some folks use DirecTV, but it is difficult here to get a decent signal from their satelites and there are virtually no "over the air" channels available here.

Please come to Running Springs with FIOS!

[Jeff Lebowski 63]

Well, if packages offered by Verizon for their FiOS are similar to what ATT is offering with their "U-Verse", I would not get too excited if true broadband internet access is your main goal.

I currently have DSL from a local ISP on a leased ATT line. 1.5Mbps up and 300 kbps down for $30/month.

ATT is now offering U-Verse in my neiborhood, so I checked the features and pricing thinking, heck, they installed all that bandwidth, surely I can get, say a symetrical 10 Mbs for a reasonable price. I don't watch TV, so I really could care less about that part of U-Verse.

Well, guess what? The best internet option is 10 Mbps down and 1.5 Mbps up for $55. Sounds pretty good, right? Wrong. You can't buy just internet service. I have to buy one of the TV packages. The cheapest package (no preminum channels) is $69. So, in order to bump up my internet connection, I have to pay $124/month.

That's right. These scumbags pulled fiber into my neighborhood, filled it up with a bunch commercial-laden drivel, bumped up their maximum internet access speeds less than 50% and are now requiring customers to purchase TV packages in order to get the incremental increase in internet access speed.

So, all I can say is "thank you to all you corporate ****** in congress and at the FCC for allowing the phone companies to re-monopolize, killing the CLECs, providing gigantic tax breaks and free easements to the re-formed telephone monopolies so that they could screw the consumer". Ain't deregulated monopolies great?

[Roy Robinson]

Verizon service is only available in the West Santa Clara Valley centered in Los Gatos. Residents have $$$$$....
What about the bandwidth starved high tech workers in Campbell, San Jose, and other communities in the South SF Bay Area?
With all the high tech workers in the South Bay, why has not Verizon provided high performance broadband solutions to these residents? Competition for broadband provides solutions and I don't see competition with AT&T holding both telco DSL and cable modem services in all SF South Bay communities....
I have to endure painful, erratic DSL service from AT&T and they have not done squat to provide my area in Campbell with decent broadband.....

[Roy Robinson]

Correction...Comcast has the cable modem franchise in Campbell...Campbell's only cable provider, how about some competition for Comcast???

[trancer944]

I live in Santa Clara, not far from Sun Microsystems, Cisco, Intel, etc... BUT there's no FTTH in our area. This is really strange. This is one of the most dense living areas in Santa Clara, and it should be easy to run fiber here, and lots of people willing to buy the service. It's a no-brainer to install this service here.