[Discuss] Howdy

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

On 11/30/2011 09:32 AM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
>> From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey.com at blu.org [mailto:discuss-
>> bounces+blu=nedharvey.com at blu.org] On Behalf Of Shirley M?rquez
>>
>> 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.
> My Dad lives in the boondocks up in NH.  About 7 yrs ago, VZ was forced by
> this tiny little hick town (pop 4,500) to offer cabling to the whole town or
> they would get none of the town...  My Dad lives about 100 ft away from the
> town line, in the furthest reach of the town limits.  He has 4 miles of dirt
> road before the closest pavement, and a half mile long dirt driveway and no
> telephone poles.  (It's all buried underground.)  He subscribed to the
> cheapest offering they had, something like $35/mo.  VZ came out there with a
> crew of men, dug a trench, ran a half mile of cable to the street (and of
> course all the cable along the road), provided the routers&  junk in the
> basement.  They must have lost $10k or $20k on my Dad's house alone.  Later
> they pulled out of town, and gave it all to Fairpoint.
>
> So if they would be willing to wire up my Dad, I'm surprised they wouldn't
> be willing to wire up Boston.
>
They had to give it to Fairpoint because of a merger.
We have some very archaic laws regarding phone services that also affect 
cable. Essentially, the provider needs to deal with every town. There is 
some positives and negatives.

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