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[ NNSquad ] Hoping for FiOS, some cities now feel abandoned by Verizon
Hoping for FiOS, some cities now feel abandoned by Verizon
http://j.mp/Lj2odJ (philly.com)
"Years after Verizon Communications Inc. wired the suburbs of Boston,
Buffalo, and Baltimore with superfast Internet, more than one million
residents in the poorer urban neighborhoods of those metro areas are
still waiting for FiOS. Ditto, according to a union representing
Verizon workers, for Syracuse, Albany, Erie, Scranton, and other
Northeast cities. No FiOS. City officials didn't think that would
last. They believed - hoped - that Verizon would get around to them to
compete head to head with the cable companies."
- - -
The technical term is "cherry picking" -- and it's part of the complex
of outright lies (promising deployments that never occurred) that
Verizon and other major carriers have used to restrain competition
for decades.
Note that this is a three page story -- don't miss the additional
two pages.
--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein (lauren@vortex.com): http://www.vortex.com/lauren
Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org
Founder:
- Data Wisdom Explorers League: http://www.dwel.org
- Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org
- Global Coalition for Transparent Internet Performance: http://www.gctip.org
- PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com
Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy
Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com
Google+: http://vortex.com/g+lauren / Twitter: http://vortex.com/t-lauren
Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 / Skype: vortex.com
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