How Verizon Is Hindering NYC's Internet Service

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday June 30, 2015 @11:42PM from the shareholder-value-trumps-citizen-value dept.

Cuillere writes: Verizon promised to make FiOS available to all New York City residents. The deadline passed a year ago, and many residents still don't have FiOS as an option, but Verizon claims to have done its part. "The agreement required Verizon to 'pass' homes with fiber (not actually connect them), but no one wrote down in the agreement what they thought 'pass' meant. (Verizon’s interpretation, predictably, is that it doesn’t have to get very close.)" The situation is a mess, and the city isn't having much luck fighting it in the courts. Susan Crawford offers a solution: set up wholesale fiber access for third party ISPs and absolve Verizon of customer service responsibility.

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Start a community broadband service by Rigel47 · 2015-07-01 00:53 · Score: 4, Interesting

Want Verizon to sit up straight and come around? NYC is the *perfect* place for community access broadband. Enormous population density with probably high 90% subscribership. Even if it's not possible to use Verizon's fiber I wonder if the conduit is fair game by FCC rules.

Heck, I'm willing to bet a good technical plan and an indieGoGo campaign could get things going.