When will Verizon FIOS be coming to [YOUR TOWN NAME HERE]?

[Derek Atkins]

Quoting Matt Shields <mattboston at gmail.com>:

> It seems like all my friends keep asking me this and I keep calling
> Verizon to ask because I want it too.  They always tell me that they
> aren't told when it will be available in my town.  So the other day I
> was talking with a friend of mine who is the LAN/WAN Manager for the
> town next to me.  He was telling me that in that town, you won't see
> FIOS for at least 5 years and possibly never.  Not because Verizon
> doesn't want to install it, it's because some towns have signed
> exclusivity agreements with Comcast in exchange for being paid a quite
> a bit of money. If they do not renew the exclusivity agreement when it
> comes up, then they lose that money.  He said he's pretty sure that
> most towns that do not have FIOS already have these agreements with
> Comcast.

Somerville doesn't have FiOS, but there's also no exclusivity agreement
because we have a choice between RCN and Comcast.  So I don't think that's
what's keeping Vz out.

> -matt

-derek

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