verizon (NYSE: VZ) may not be bringing FiOS to Boston proper anytime soon, but residential and business customers in the nearby city of Medford may be soon be able to take advantage of the service as the telco has applied for a license to operate in the city.
Medford mayor Michael J. McGlynn insists that one of the key points of the negotiation process is that verizon will bring FiOS to a part of west Medford they have not built out to yet.
“That’s the one part of this (agreement) that was critical for me,” McGlynn told The Boston Globe. “It states that we will both continue to negotiate, to get the other 29 percent of the community wired.”
Feeling that the city needed another video service alternative to satellite and the area’s dominant cable provider Comcast (Nasdaq: CMCSA), McGlynn asked Robert Mudge, president of Consumer and Mass Business Markets at verizon to complete the FiOS buildout it began in Medford in 2009.
The telco stopped work on fiber to the premises (FTTP) network infrastructure in Medford in 2010 following a companywide decision to halt the buildout of FiOS in new communities and stop franchise negotiations with communities like Medford.
Although Verizon already offers FiOS in 111 Massachusetts towns and cities, Verizon spokesman Phil Santoro said it has no immediate plans to extend the service to other locations.
“We have finished franchising,” Santoro wrote in an e-mail to the Globe. “Medford is the last one. We already started the process in Medford when we wrapped up the FiOS franchising efforts.”
For more:
- The Boston Globe has this article
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Article source: http://www.fiercetelecom.com/story/medford-mass-mayor-wants-verizon-complete-citys-fios-buildout/2012-01-27?utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss
The unit block of East Slocum Street was closed Friday as verizon workers installed FiOS service along the block.
This isn’t the first time something similar has happened. Last year, we reported on workers putting FiOS in a part of West Mt. Airy. You can read about that here.
The workers placed fiber-optic cable along aerial wires there.
Initially, workers only lay the cable. Another team will soon come in and splice it, and only then will customers be able to call and sign up for the service, which verizon says allows people to receive faster Internet and better television quality in their homes.
verizon is required to build the fiber-optic network throughout the entire city by 2016, thanks to a franchise agreement it reached with City Council in 2009.
That agreement, as reported by FierceTelecom, stipulates that the network had to ensure FiOS covered all of Philadelphia within seven years. The entire project will cost about $1 billion, according to the FierceTelecom piece.
After the cable is placed, it typically takes about six weeks for customers to be able to purchase FiOS for their homes.
Article source: http://mtairy.patch.com/articles/fios-being-installed-in-east-mt-airy
A few weeks ago I wrote a post about how the first rule of marketing is keeping your promises. I was reminded of that post while watching TV last night and seeing a commercial for Optimum Online, which took a direct shot at verizon fios. For those of you who do not live in New York or the surrounding area, verizon has been bullying its way into the cable market, advertising higher speeds and better performance than the alternative.
The problem is, now their competitors have caught on. And they’re advertising the same thing right back. Both sides are saying their speeds are faster. Both sides say that tests prove it.
This is a fundamental breakdown in marketing, and one of the biggest risks you take when you do comparative advertising. Now consumers are seeing both sides claiming they are faster, and we don’t believe either. Someone is lying (or at least using test data deceptively). And we’ve lost faith in your marketing.
It’s probably the result of verizon’s original ads being successful. It’s probably based on data that says that speed is the number one issue for cable customers. But whatever it is, all we think now is that no one is keeping their promises. And we lose faith in the industry as a whole.
Better luck next time.
Article source: http://www.business2community.com/tech-gadgets/the-need-for-speed-fios-vs-optimum-0124889
A few weeks ago I wrote a post about how the first rule of marketing is keeping your promises. I was reminded of that post while watching TV last night and seeing a commercial for Optimum Online, which took a direct shot at verizon fios. For those of you who do not live in New York or the surrounding area, verizon has been bullying its way into the cable market, advertising higher speeds and better performance than the alternative.
The problem is, now their competitors have caught on. And they’re advertising the same thing right back. Both sides are saying their speeds are faster. Both sides say that tests prove it.
This is a fundamental breakdown in marketing, and one of the biggest risks you take when you do comparative advertising. Now consumers are seeing both sides claiming they are faster, and we don’t believe either. Someone is lying (or at least using test data deceptively). And we’ve lost faith in your marketing.
It’s probably the result of verizon’s original ads being successful. It’s probably based on data that says that speed is the number one issue for cable customers. But whatever it is, all we think now is that no one is keeping their promises. And we lose faith in the industry as a whole.
Better luck next time.
Article source: http://www.business2community.com/tech-gadgets/the-need-for-speed-fios-vs-optimum-0124889
verizon (NYSE: VZ) may not be bringing FiOS to Boston proper anytime soon, but residential and business customers in the nearby city of Medford may be soon be able to take advantage of the service as the telco has applied for a license to operate in the city.
Medford mayor Michael J. McGlynn insists that one of the key points of the negotiation process is that verizon will bring FiOS to a part of west Medford they have not built out to yet.
“That’s the one part of this (agreement) that was critical for me,” McGlynn told The Boston Globe. “It states that we will both continue to negotiate, to get the other 29 percent of the community wired.”
Feeling that the city needed another video service alternative to satellite and the area’s dominant cable provider Comcast (Nasdaq: CMCSA), McGlynn asked Robert Mudge, president of Consumer and Mass Business Markets at Verizon to complete the FiOS buildout it began in Medford in 2009.
The telco stopped work on fiber to the premises (FTTP) network infrastructure in Medford in 2010 following a companywide decision to halt the buildout of FiOS in new communities and stop franchise negotiations with communities like Medford.
Although Verizon already offers FiOS in 111 Massachusetts towns and cities, Verizon spokesman Phil Santoro said it has no immediate plans to extend the service to other locations.
“We have finished franchising,” Santoro wrote in an e-mail to the Globe. “Medford is the last one. We already started the process in Medford when we wrapped up the FiOS franchising efforts.”
For more:
- The Boston Globe has this article
Related articles:
Verizon Q4 2011 wireline results get boost from FiOS video, broadband adds
Is cable the right complement to Verizon’s FiOS network?
Verizon to fill in FiOS gaps with home LTE wireless service
Verizon’s Q3 wireline story driven by consumer, business gains
Article source: http://www.fiercetelecom.com/story/medford-mass-mayor-wants-verizon-complete-citys-fios-buildout/2012-01-27
Jan
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2012
verizon (NYSE: VZ) may not be bringing FiOS to Boston proper anytime soon, but residential and business customers in the nearby city of Medford may be soon be able to take advantage of the service as the telco has applied for a license to operate in the city. Medford mayor Michael J. McGlynn insists that …
Jan
28
2012
The unit block of East Slocum Street was closed Friday as verizon workers installed FiOS service along the block. This isn’t the first time something similar has happened. Last year, we reported on workers putting FiOS in a part of West Mt. Airy. You can read about that here. The workers placed fiber-optic cable along …
Jan
27
2012
A few weeks ago I wrote a post about how the first rule of marketing is keeping your promises. I was reminded of that post while watching TV last night and seeing a commercial for Optimum Online, which took a direct shot at verizon fios. For those of you who do not live in New …
Jan
27
2012
A few weeks ago I wrote a post about how the first rule of marketing is keeping your promises. I was reminded of that post while watching TV last night and seeing a commercial for Optimum Online, which took a direct shot at verizon fios. For those of you who do not live in New …
Jan
27
2012
verizon (NYSE: VZ) may not be bringing FiOS to Boston proper anytime soon, but residential and business customers in the nearby city of Medford may be soon be able to take advantage of the service as the telco has applied for a license to operate in the city. Medford mayor Michael J. McGlynn insists that …
Jan
27
2012
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In 2010, verizon replaced copper wires with fiber optics in most city neighborhoods, except for an area near the Winchester town line. Work stopped after verizon made a corporate decision to halt expansion of FiOS nationally, and dropped negotiations with communities, including Medford, McGlynn said. Article source: http://www.boston.com/yourtown/medford/articles/2012/01/26/medford_residents_closer_to_having_choice_of_verizon_fios/
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For a brief moment in the past decade, verizon and ATT gave cable broadband a good run for its money. Not anymore. As two of the largest phone companies have shifted focus to their more lucrative wireless business, cable broadband has been running away with the wired broadband market. The proof — admittedly in bits and …
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verizon (NYSE: VZ) added 194,000 FiOS video subscribers in the fourth quarter, en route to a record $28.4 billion in revenue for the quarter, an increase of 7.7 percent from a year ago, and just eclipsing analyst’s estimates of $28.39 billion. The company reported quarterly earnings of 52 cents per share, just missing Wall Street’s …
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