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On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 11:33:43PM -0500, Ben Holland wrote: > Somerville is out because they don't think there will be enough people who > can spend that kinda money to get it. Hmmm? I believe there has been talk before about Vz cherry-picking the wealthiest communities for rollouts first, with less affluent towns following (much) later if at all. They always deny doing that of course. Anyway; your comment sounds a little insulting and not all that well-informed; FiOS is not more expensive than the alternatives (at least not yet, afaik). You're not suggesting that only very few people in Somerville have internet access and/or cable because everyone is too poor, right? Also, the population density in Somerville is such that it would be a very attractive target for a FiOS rollout - for every mile of fiber you can hook up way more people than in a lot of the other communities that got FiOS already. Perhaps FiOS is not in Somerville yet because there is more competition than in most towns: there are two cable providers - Comcast and RCN. Thanks, Ward. -- Pong.be -( "HTML needs a rant tag" - Alan Cox )- Virtual hosting -( )- http://pong.be -( )- GnuPG public key: http://pgp.mit.edu -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [hidden email] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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