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anon-0537
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 Posted: Wed, Dec 3 2014, 9:16 am EST Post subject: Fios |
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Does anyone know if Cranbury will be getting Fios?? I have seen a few Verizon trucks in various locations through town, but now sure if they were running lines for Fios.
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anon-0280
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anon-p8qs
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| Posted: Sat, Dec 6 2014, 12:35 am EST Post subject: Re: Fios |
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I don't understand this
"The settlement also sets up a process in which customers in census tracts with no broadband can request such service from Verizon, if there are 35 or more of them, and each signs a contract for at least one year of service with a $100 deposit."
I have no broadband....does this mean if we get a total of 35 customers they come out and wire the town? |
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anon-p8qs
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| Posted: Sat, Dec 6 2014, 12:37 am EST Post subject: Re: Fios |
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He said the new plan allows Verizon to only be as fast as DSL, which is about 5-10 Mbps and it is only fast in one direction.
Make that barely 3 Mbps down and 0.6 Mbps second up on a good day. |
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anon-o498
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| Posted: Sun, Dec 7 2014, 10:00 am EST Post subject: Re: Fios |
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| It also says that cellular data service qualifies as "broadband", so if you get Verizon cellphone service, that's good enough. |
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anon-257q
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| Posted: Sun, Dec 7 2014, 8:57 pm EST Post subject: Re: Fios |
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| anon-p8qs wrote: | I don't understand this
"The settlement also sets up a process in which customers in census tracts with no broadband can request such service from Verizon, if there are 35 or more of them, and each signs a contract for at least one year of service with a $100 deposit."
I have no broadband....does this mean if we get a total of 35 customers they come out and wire the town? |
Your census area has to have no alternative broadband option, not that you just personally don't. Cranbury has Comcast and AT&T and Verizon Wireless so we are not considered an area without a broadband option, even though in practice that gives Comcast a monopoly. |
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anon-257q
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| Posted: Sun, Dec 7 2014, 8:57 pm EST Post subject: Re: Fios |
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| anon-p8qs wrote: | He said the new plan allows Verizon to only be as fast as DSL, which is about 5-10 Mbps and it is only fast in one direction.
Make that barely 3 Mbps down and 0.6 Mbps second up on a good day. |
DSL can be a heck of a lot slower than that. |
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anon-0280
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| Posted: Mon, Dec 8 2014, 8:30 am EST Post subject: Re: Fios |
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| anon-p8qs wrote: | | Cranbury has Comcast and AT&T and Verizon Wireless so we are not considered an area without a broadband option, even though in practice that gives Comcast a monopoly. |
Actually our only 2 true broadband choices are Comcast & Verizon DSL, although Verizon DSL is only "broadband" in the legal sense of the word - it is MUCH slower than Comcast in practice. Our other "broadband" (again legal sense) choices are Verizon Wireless, AT&T Wireless, Sprint and T-Mobile - however they are much to expensive to be practical for home use.
So that leaves Comcast as our only choice for true high-speed broadband. The NJ Board of Public Utilities really let us down by allowing Verizon to weasel out of their promise to provide FIOS to every household in NJ. |
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anon-5652
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| Posted: Thu, Dec 11 2014, 3:40 pm EST Post subject: Re: Fios |
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| would be great if Fios came to town |
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