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Verizon: FiOS Access For Other ISPs in the Works

Posted by timothy on from the fiber-to-the-premises-win-the-argument dept.

Ant writes "According to Broadband Reports' story, 'Verizon has confirmed the claim made by a DSLExtreme representative here last week that the company has plans to offer other ISPs access to its new fiber-to-the-premises network.' A Verizon spokeswoman is quoted as saying, 'A couple of deals have already been signed and more are in the works.'"

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  1. Hmmm... by elid · · Score: 3, Insightful

    But how long will it be until widespread access becomes available?

    1. Re:Hmmm... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

      Anyone have any idea how long till fiber hits the NYC area?

      Hmm, I would say it won't happen until they are unable to squeeze money out of their customers using the existing infrastructure (copper).

  2. Nice by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's always nice to see open networks. They do come at a price, but it's pretty fair to build a business around. I have seen those Verizon Guys in front of my house hooking up the fiber. They told me it will be a couple of months until I can get the net with the fiber, but it's coming. I just hope I can use the upstream to host my web sites. I hate paying for hosts and all that just to have a presence on the web. Unfortunately the residential service my current Cable Modem provider offers doesn't allow any servers being exposed to the public. I mean it's great having an intranet at home, but with all the money I spend they could have at least let me setup a web server and open that up. It's only a personal site so I don't know what the big deal is really. I can see if it was commercial, but man they are rough.

    So when they transfer everyone to digital (10 years or so) then maybe their bandwith will free up. For the future the Verizon solution looks like a good deal they already offer 30mbps down and 5mbps up for a reasonable price.

    1. Re:Nice by Saeed+al-Sahaf · · Score: 3, Insightful
      It's always nice to see open networks.

      What makes you think Verizon is building an "open" network? They have made business deals with a few other ISPs, and mabe more in the future. It's a business deal with the purpose of generating income for Verizon, and it is at Verizon's whim (as it should be) as to who they make these business deals with.

      It is not an open network>

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    2. Re:Nice by That's+Unpossible! · · Score: 2, Insightful

      It is not an open network

      It is not open or closed. It is a network that Verizon is building, and in the sense that they are letting other businesses provide service over it for a fee, it is open, and in the sense that they aren't letting businesses provide service over it for free, it is closed.

      But I think everyone knew what he meant by "open."

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      Ironically, the word ironically is often used incorrectly.
    3. Re:Nice by wdd1040 · · Score: 1, Insightful

      dude...

      I pay $10 a YEAR for webhosting on a 100meg connection.

      2.4gig space with 120 GIG a month bandwidth.

      You just need to look around. There is no reason to run the sites out of your house anymore.

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      wdd
  3. It only makes sense for them to do this by drinkypoo · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If they don't, then people will just implement other technologies that allow them to make an end run around verizon. That may yet happen, especially if verizon is as helpful to the ISPs who buy into this as SBC is to the other companies selling DSL on SBC copper, or for that matter to the ISPs selling dialup lines using SBC's modems.

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  4. Seem to be better than Cable downloads but by zymano · · Score: 2, Insightful

    so what.

    It's still priced for the wealthy few.

    We need to keep the Wifi muni , FTTH municipal movement going !

  5. Re:Notice that they don't call it FTTH by zymano · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I'd prefer not having my tax dollars pay for your education, water, electrical, police and emergency health care.