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Cablevision CEO a Verizon FiOS Customer?
Keri_Love writes "Cablevision and Verizon are in the middle of heated battle trying to sign up customers for the coveted 'triple play': it's fiber-to-the-premises vs. cable for broadband, television, and phone. Cablevision is slinging lines like 'We're not afraid of your fiber!' Tech blogger Mike Murray discloses evidence that Cablevision's CEO may be enjoying FiOS at home. He writes: 'Click the picture to the right showing a Verizon FiOS can and drop directly above Cablevision's CEO Chuck Dolan's Oyster Bay, Long Island mailbox.' He's not scared! He's a customer!"
This doesn't have to be evidence that Verizon is better or that Dolan is a hypocrite. It may well be that he deserves credit for checking out the competition, or that his own service isn't available where he lives.
.. so what?
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NOT to evaluate the competitor's product. What's the point of this story?
I run my own ISP - I supply high-speed to my residence via my own service AND the cable company. I like the redundancy. Yes - my ISP can have problems too (very rare, but I'm the first to admit it can happen)! I also like to keep an eye on the 'competitions' performance. A lot can be done with DOCSIS 3.0 over cable. As long as your connection is consistenly fast and reliable (and you're happy) who cares if it's fiber or not? I'm around fibre connections all day while at work (long-haul to other ISPs) I suppose I'm used to it, where many are not. Other than the connection being fibre, at the end of the day it's pretty much all the same as long as your are happy with your connection. As time moves on and things get upgraded, I have no doubt that fibre to the home will be the way everyone will/should connect in the coming years.
Seeing as how there are two mailboxes in that picture, isn't it just as likely that his next-door neighbor has FiOS instead?
This guy's the limit!
The pic shows his mailbox, and his neighbours. Unless they can say its going to his property I dont think proximity to his mail box is particularly reliable way to judge whose taking the service. If it was the only mailbox for a mile, maybe, but when its 6ft from next doors its a bit much to jump to conclusions from.
Maybe he can't get CableVision in his area?
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Time Warner in Lincoln, NE is advertising their new High Speed Fiber Network, but it doesn't appear to be a service you can buy-- it just shows up on all their commercials... "Brought to you by Time Warners advanced Fiber Optic network"
As a Fios customer, I can tell you that a box on the wires on the street doesn't mean you have service. What matters is the ONT box that would be affixed to the side of your house. No pic of the ONT, no evidence of Fios service.
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Hey, that's MINE mailbox! and I sure ain't some fancy-schmancy CEO!
I can tell you old chucky boy is a deeply disturbed and eccentric man. It's tough to tell what he's trying to prove with this. With him it can be he does like fios better or like others suggested he checking out the competition(but being a ceo of a large company, i would of had my employees do that instead).
So the other day, a youngish surfer dude in a bright red shirt emblazoned with the "Verizon FiOS" log comes to the door. The conversation goes something like this:
Him: "So, how's the new FiOS service?"
Me: "Umm...what FiOS service?"
Him: (Looks at clipboard with one piece of paper on it.) "Looks like we installed here a few weeks back. This your address?"
Me: "Why, yes it is." (Stealth thinking mode kicks in.) "Yeah, sorry, my mind was elsewhere...service is great!"
Him: "And the TV and the internet connection are working fine?"
Me: "Oh yes, fantastic! Couldn't have dumped Comcast any sooner!"
Him: "Well, that's great. Anything else you need, just let me know."
And there I stood, watching surfer dude walk away, trying to figure out how in the hell I can tell whether I really do have FiOS. My understanding is that the copper is cut to the house after FiOS is installed, and there was a lot of digging in the yard a few weeks back when Verizon's contractors came through. So, is there a way I can tell whether I'm hooked up?
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Verizon FIOS offered in Beaumont, CA. Also offered in Palm Springs, CA. I live along the only major road between the two cities. Major power, phone, etc. run along this road. Confirmed with FIOS support that, yes, the FIOS line does run through the ground along my street. Two new Verizon boxes (each roughly the size of a smallish refrigerator) put in about 100 yards down the street. I realize these boxes might have something to do with providing phone service to the new homes being built along our road, but I can't shake the feeling that they might be the boxes for serving FIOS to the area. Despite all of this, Verizon still says no FIOS availability, even though the line runs less than 50 ft from my house. Frustration of the highest order.
It means that either:
1. The CEO of the company disagrees with the cable companies undisclosed bandwidth tap while advertising "unlimited" access
2. The CEO wants to run a bittorrent client and is sick of dealing with the cable company's illegally compromising his traffic
3. The CEO wants a provider which supports net neutrality
(I kid, I kid. I understand there may be other reasons)
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Nice to see something that was all over the Cable Vision forums on www.dslreports.com last year is being slash dotted.
Why would he go with cable when fiber is available? Sure cable is going to market itself as the better option, but from a technological standpoint, it's not.
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As others have mentioned, having a Verizon box in the street in front of your house, does not necessarily mean that you are a customer.$sig not found
FiOS uses a technology called Passive Optical Network (PON), which means that one strand of fiber is divided passively among up to 32 subscribers. There's one box that does 4:1 and one that does 8:1 between the subscriber and the optical terminal. It's not terribly flexible; they have to guess what the ultimate penetration might be and then lay out enough to get there, with splitters all over the place up on the poles.
When someone subscribes, they run a drop fiber to the home and mount an Optical Network Terminal (ONT) on the side of the house. THAT marks a subscriber. The stuff on the pole doesn't; that merely marks a "home passed", a place where somebody has the ability to become a subscriber.
I do know someone who has both FiOS and cable modem service. He's a well-known ubergeek, and can afford both; it gives him redundancy and the ability to compare the two. A cable executive might even want a second link to his house, to see what the competition's up to.
News about his has been floating around for years. Guess you have to keep and eye on the competition.
I think it is a pretty easy guess that the real reason that he has FiOS is that the way ISPs have locked out competition in local markets, he probably just can't get anything but Verizon at his house!
I'm disturbed by the fact the Verizon forced to put their own router, not a bridge, a router, inside my house to connect my pc's with. Does that mean they can see every packet going between 2 computers inside my house? I went ahead and plugged my own linksys NAT Firewall to their router but one system's VPN won't work across 2 routers so I had to connect it directly to their router. Does anyone know if Verizon can peek inside my house network traffic?
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...where Verizon is actively trying to dump their business off to Fairpoint to avoid keeping their "FIOS to all our customers" pledge, I find myself unable to care about who has what on Long Island. Sorry.
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I'd be happy if I were able to get FiOS at my house. I guess being super-rich has its privileges.
I'm in the hole of the broadband donut.