is FiOS expension really over?

[space-time]

Verizon installed FiOS across the street back in 2007-2008 but they didn't install anything here. I read on some sites that Verison confirmed that he FiOS expension was over, it seem some large cities such as Boston didn't get FiOS. Yet I heard the neighbors talking that Verizon might one day install FiOS here in our development.

It seem that now verizon is in bed with 4 cable companies (verizon bought spectrum from them), they also agreed to stop FiOS expension as part of the deal.

This is really bad as there is no competition here, Comcast has no competition. Verizon used to offer DSL but that is too slow these days and even that seems to not be available anymore according to their web site.

Anycome care to comment if this is true or not. did you get FiOS deployed recently in your neightborhood?

[testcase]

I don't know about expEnsion but, I expect FIOS expAnsion to continue.

[mattkime]

moving is easier than waiting.

its a ridiculous state of affairs. we pride ourselves on free market yet watch these things happen.

[$tevie]

My understanding is that, for whatever reasons, FiOS is not going in any place that it hasn't already.

[rz]

I hope Google Fiber starts really taking hold and wipes out companies like Comcast and Verizon.

[silvarios]

testcase wrote:
I don't know about expEnsion but, I expect FIOS expAnsion to continue.

No. This was announced a while ago, I even found an article that was over two years old talking about how Verizon was winding down deployment. Found more articles from 8 months ago, same info. Verizon could change their mind, but…well, let's just say I'm not going to hold my breath.

Honestly, LTE is really fast, if their weren't bandwidth caps or if the caps were reasonable, at least 100GB, I doubt people would be as troubled by the lack of future FIOS deployment. Yeah, FIOS is faster, but LTE is real world 15 Mbps down. That's pretty darn fast for most people.

[N-OS X-tasy!]

Verizon halted expansion of their FiOS fiber network about two years ago. I imagine they will take up the expansion effort again sometime in the future, but there are currently no plans to do so.

[JoeH]

Here is a link to a story about the original announcement: http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2010-0...fios_N.htm, and a recent one from when Verizon reconfirmed the notice this year:
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Veriz...ver-118949

[silvarios]

N-OS X-tasy! wrote:
Verizon halted expansion of their FiOS fiber network about two years ago.

Yep.

N-OS X-tasy! wrote: I imagine they will take up the expansion effort again sometime in the future, but there are currently no plans to do so.

Maybe. Then again, I think Verizon is salivating at the cash cow that is mobile data. The more people that pick up a very expensive LTE plan, the better for Verizon's bottom line. $10/GB at best is really pricey. The speeds on LTE are compelling. The siren's call of only needing mobile data and not home and mobile data plans is likewise compelling. Yet, the pricing and caps on data are not so compelling.

Then again, perhaps Verizon's plan is to pitch LTE for mobile and HomeFusion Broadband (aka LTE) for home use. High margins I would imagine. $60 for 10GB on the HomeFusion? $130 minimum for two smartphone users and 1GB shared? Contrast $190 month minimum instead of $40-$80 for home Internet and a nice $50 prepaid plan for mobile. Yikes!!!!!

[Speedy]

We had a nearby community (Monticello, MN.) install FiOS because the cable provider(s) weren't providing needed service. That spurred the local providers to go full-court against a municipal system, going all the way to the state supreme court. The municipality even stopped payment on its bonds because litigation meant they couldn't complete the project and begin getting revenue. We might as well be living in a third world country the way we get Internet.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/...d-network/