Verizon to Sell Landline Biz to Frontier for $10 Billion
A Convenient Way To Skirt FiOS Deployment
With Comcast in their pocket, Verizon is looking to kill off FiOS and all land based communication as quickly as possible so they can fight in the mobile world against Title II regulations I am sure.
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Frontier bought Verizon's fios in Washington state a few years ago, but Verizon had already stated (at least in Washington) they were not rolling out any new service in neighborhoods that didn't already have it.
Frontier has continued with their strategy, if your neighborhood is already wired, you can get it to your house, but if not you likely never will.
I dont see Verizon outright killing fios anywhere, mainly because for a fiber install (at least in Wa) they physically remove the copper POTS wire from your house.
Frontier has continued with their strategy, if your neighborhood is already wired, you can get it to your house, but if not you likely never will.
I dont see Verizon outright killing fios anywhere, mainly because for a fiber install (at least in Wa) they physically remove the copper POTS wire from your house.
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Which is funny - because Frontier also added copy protect to programs, and a lot of people who have them now over Verizon are extremely unhappy.
The part I never understood is why does the copper wire need to be ripped out to run a fiber line into the house?
Cable companies and phone companies can install additional lines separate from the main one, why cant they do that with the fiber line? Oh, I know why, to make it so you can never switch back to another carrier. On top of this, some companies like DirecTV, DishNetwork and Comcast will actually recycle your existing wiring or outlets, while othertimes, like in the case of my parents, they actually CUT the lines themselves, perfectly good lines going into the house, only to drill y...
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The part I never understood is why does the copper wire need to be ripped out to run a fiber line into the house?
Cable companies and phone companies can install additional lines separate from the main one, why cant they do that with the fiber line? Oh, I know why, to make it so you can never switch back to another carrier. On top of this, some companies like DirecTV, DishNetwork and Comcast will actually recycle your existing wiring or outlets, while othertimes, like in the case of my parents, they actually CUT the lines themselves, perfectly good lines going into the house, only to drill y...
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I'm waiting to see if Frontier buys AT&T's landline service in my area. For areas of Indiana that Verizon served, that was sold to Frontier a few years ago (former GTE territory). I don't know if Frontier has expanded the fiber network or not. I know AT&T wants to sell off their landline business as well, so they can focus on wireless. I have UVerse, & it's not all that it's cracked up to be. While AT&T didn't install a new line to my home, they however had to install a new phone jack to handle the UVerse modem, & that requires 2 lines for just the modem. Say that Frontier did buy AT&T's landline business, I wonder how much the service would change under them. What Verizon is selling now are areas that they retained before, because th...
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Well they can't guarantee the service if they didn't do a complete install themselves with new everything.
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Its annoying, I agree.
I ran a 100ft cat6 cable from my house to guest house, worked fine, no issues etc...DirecTV wouldn't use it for the network connection between some of the new dvr's...they insisted they would have to run that line themselves; couldn't use mine.
BS
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Its annoying, I agree.
I ran a 100ft cat6 cable from my house to guest house, worked fine, no issues etc...DirecTV wouldn't use it for the network connection between some of the new dvr's...they insisted they would have to run that line themselves; couldn't use mine.
BS
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