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Cablevision CEO a Verizon FiOS Customer?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the for-research-purposes-only-of-course dept.

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!"

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  1. give him credit by belmolis · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.

    1. Re:give him credit by ultranova · · Score: 2, Insightful

      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.

      If you work for McDonald's, are you a hypocrite because you prefer to eat at Burger King ? Do you need to justify yourself by saying you're "checking out the competition" ?

      This whole discussion is ridiculous, since it presupposes that people owe loyalty to the companies they work for. They don't. And even the CEO is, ultimately, just an employee.

      I guess there's nothing more important happening this weekend...

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    2. Re:give him credit by unlametheweak · · Score: 4, Insightful

      the CEO is, ultimately, just an employee.

      A CEO isn't "just an employee". A CEO represents the company he works for. The position is very sales oriented in most cases. And a CEO is generally elected to that position by the shareholders. There is politics involved, so being politically astute is important.
    3. Re:give him credit by xSauronx · · Score: 2, Interesting

      Seriously. I worked for a Wireless ISP in Kansas that is in the midst of expansion and acquistion and the President only *recently* got service from his own company, and was until then using that of the competition, because we hadn't been able to negotiate a deal for tower space to hang our own equipment in his area, and the nearest area from which his service area is now bridged (Town 1 is a service area with the T1, and has a 5 mile wireless bridge to Town 2, which is quite small, and the home of the president of the company)

      He is, however, much happier with his own service. The competition has oversold their bandwidth and was quite slow, with lousy response times.

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  2. Let me be the first to say.. by ynososiduts · · Score: 4, Funny

    .. so what?

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  3. he'd be an idiot... by seanadams.com · · Score: 3, Interesting

    NOT to evaluate the competitor's product. What's the point of this story?

  4. Redundant connections by maxrate · · Score: 2, Interesting

    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.

    1. Re:Redundant connections by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

      Bollox. Seen this: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/art-brodsky/our-inte rnet-policy-is-a-_b_63396.html

  5. Two things spring to mind... by Richard_at_work · · Score: 4, Insightful
    1. How long has he actually been living at the premises?
    2. Are these two fuzzy photos of two separate things actually linkable in any way to this person?
  6. two mailboxes by gEvil+(beta) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Seeing as how there are two mailboxes in that picture, isn't it just as likely that his next-door neighbor has FiOS instead?

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  7. Not the right box... by jea6 · · Score: 4, Informative

    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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  8. Sure there is! by commodoresloat · · Score: 4, Funny

    So, is there a way I can tell whether I'm hooked up? Easy! Just look at your checkbook and see if you wrote any checks to Verizon lately.