Comments on: Verizon FiOS: Price Increase Masks Upgrade

By: scotty g

scotty g — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 03:29:50 +0000

ok folks..as an ex cable company contractor and a current verizon fios tech. I can assure you cable companys should be scared….I’m so sick of Comcast and these false commercials . They state if you have 2 or more HD sets 1 of them will go fuzzy….hmmm well. My personal home has 4 and 2 of them are DVR’s I never had a problem.. in the cable world contractors are required to work 6 days work weeks.. averaging 25-30 work orders a day…giving their customers little or no quality service at all… In the verizon world.. I get to spend 4 to 6 hours on 1 fios install.. paying close attention to detail, quality work and teaching the customer anything and everything they need to know.. no charge of course…. what people need to know is when you come home from work and log on the your computer your speed that your paying for is always there…as for cable companys when your neighbors come home .., your sharing all of the bandwith…. aka speed boost for 9.95 a month…what a crock…Verizon is working on getting fios everywhere, it is just taking a very large budget to accomplish it…

By: Bill

Bill — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 22:32:50 +0000

So can somebody answer the original reply? How much does FiOS cost after the original two year price guarantee elapses? Comcast’s getallthefacts.com web site alludes to the fact that the cost will rise quickly (up to $400, according to Comcast). Any basis in fact?

By: Eugenio

Eugenio — Fri, 08 May 2009 16:06:02 +0000

Ok guys, heres the thing, I’m a FiOS sales agent (not promoting myself, i can’t even give you my extension, for I don`t have one), and about the unstated prices, the flyer clearly states ” for as low as”… that’s the starting price, you might also want to get an international calling plan, or maybe you want to get several set top boxes, and the value added services… did anyone know that FiOS offers insurance for your televisions, computers, consoles, peripherals, and stuff? Of course, it’s an extra fee, but it’s well worth it, covers $2500 on tv, $2500 on computers and $400 on telephones for just between $15 – $20 monthly fee. Verizon might just buy you a new television set if yours gets broken.
Besides that, about the speed degradation, copper wire degrades the signal much more than fiber optics, and the traffic right now on FiOS is not that much, and I can assure you, they are getting ready for EVERYONE. Im pretty sure FiOS can’t be the lowest budget choice, but it is deffinitely the fastest out there. (you can get up to 50 Mbts on special orders, just be sure to call your Local Business Office. happy surfing!

By: Josh

Josh — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 14:22:03 +0000

Jim, you may be correct about putting the neighborhood on 1 fiber but the capacity of that fiber is of no comparison to the cable infrastructure so it doesn’t matter. As for the channel line up I get 260 channels, over 100 in HD. The only thing that didn’t match up was the lineup offered to me by Comcast and my just dropped Dish account. On demand appears to have every bit of anything Comcast had to offer. As for the quality, there is a clear difference with FIOS. Our HD isnt compressed like Comcast’s or Dish’s. I won’t deny that techs like yourself bust your butt however that does not equate to the cable company doing anything for me as the consumer other than offer the same services for the last 20 years at an ever increasing cost. As for my old computer, it’s 4 years old with PIII processor, 1 GB of memory and 2 mirrored SATAs w/ 80GB each. Bottlenecks caused by pc limitations are almost a thing of the past. I havent always been a Verizon fan either but FIOS is the real deal.

By: Joe

Joe — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 01:57:16 +0000

How can you say &100.00 is an enormous fee for telecom. You spend most of your free born life on the internet , phone and watching tv. Not too mention playing video games online against anyone int he country. Don;t you remember the days of your parents yelling at you over the $200.00 phone bill? Some people just live to complain.