Verizon To Pump $18B Into FiOS

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Thursday September 28, 2006 @01:32AM from the and-where's-my-rocket-car? dept.

larytet writes, "LightReading reports that Verizon will invest $18B into FTTH. The company says its fiber-based service will become profitable after four years, and expects by then to have 7 million customers using FiOS for Internet access." For perspective, have a look at Bruce Kushnick's book $200 Billion Broadband Scandal. His site has a page detailing phone company promises of fiber since 1993. We have been paying for these undelivered promises for years. By now we should have 86 million homes wired with FTTH at 100 Mbits/sec.

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Don't buy from the phone company then! by Anonymous Coward · 2006-09-28 02:18 · Score: -1, Troll

If you're an idiot, and have been buying stuff from the phone company, and you complain about the wait, you'd think you would have LEARNED something in the past 13 years.

If you don't like it, why don't you bury your own fiber and build your own network?
You're good at whining. And who cares what some book says. The author had enough time to write a book, why isn't he out there solving the problem instead of complaining about it?

You must be a liberal. No solution, just a bag of hot air.