[Discuss] Howdy

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

On 11/30/2011 01:04 AM, Shirley M?rquez D?lcey wrote:
> On 11/29/2011 12:05 PM, Ben Eisenbraun wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 02:47:06PM -0500, Jerry Feldman wrote:
>>> At least in Somerville you get better Internet and phone alternatives.
>>
>> Whoo! Comcast _and_ RCN... be still my beating heart! :-)
>>
>> Mayor Joe has not made himself any friends at Verizon, so it'll 
>> probably be
>> a while before we see FiOS.
>
> Maybe so. You'll probably get it before Boston does though; Mayor 
> Menino isn't a friend of Verizon either, as he has insisted that VZ 
> has to wire ALL of Boston if they want to get permission to do any of 
> it. Boston got burned years ago by RCN, which got a permit to cable 
> Boston and actually only did a couple of wealthy neighborhoods; Menino 
> doesn't want to repeat that bit of history.
>
> So most of Boston gets Comcast and... Comcast. Or you can get wireless 
> internet from Clearwire but that has some real problems with 
> insufficient capacity for peak times. DSL is available from Verizon 
> and CLECs but has become unreliable due to the deteriorating state of 
> VZ's copper infrastructure.
I live in Newton where we have Vz (FIOS), Comcast, and RCN. In general 
my Comcast service has been excellent with any outage not their fault.

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