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FiOS In Western Ma. Plan?

I wondering when FiOs or if FiOs plans to ever have it in my town of New Braintree 01531, we don't have any cable provider because our population is 500 under the minimum 2000. Now I do know that there is a remote DSLAM that serves DSL for about 30% of our whole population haha pathetic spot to put it huh? Any way I know that the Local Co that feeds all of us is located in North Brookfield 01535. It also serves almost all the other brookfields including us New Braintree. I just wondering when atleast North Brookfield is scheduled to get it in the future. I do know that in New Braintree we need a Dedicated Cable/ISP/Service Provider. Now Iknow that the best thing to install from this point no matter any company is Fibre Fed Lines because it's the newest most cheapest fastest reliable technology available. It would be nice to get that where I live and here you go verizon a town that you won't need to pay off the cable competition.

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mattheww50

Even if there is no cable company (and they aren't paid off), there generally is a franchise fee for the honor of providing service to county, city or town, and Verizon would need permission of the local government (and payment of the franchise fee, which is often both a lump sump and a fee per month per subscriber) to bring FiOS to the area. DSL is already covered by the Telephone franchise Verizon has.

Suffices to say that in many area, the local cable company fights tooth and nail (hires lobbyists to convince the local government that competition and improved service for customers is a bad idea). There is a reason cable industry has such a bad reputation....

SusanNB

Hey look man I 'd pay more than the average for the average 5 to 15mbps FiOs. Now iam Familiar with the franchise tag but verizon calculates all those fees based on there estimation of how much fibre they will be running on each road and how many suscribers they will be having and then calculates the Prices. So yes i understand if it were in my area I'd pay 30to $50 more for the service but hey why wouldn't I if really your getting your moneys worth.

SusanNB

I just got off the phone with a FiOs rep. She said she's going to get a estimated time of one FiOs will probably be in my town. But She knows that my general region is soposed to start getting layed out by summer or so, Iam pretty excited because if it gets to my house by summer I'll be switching from this Dial up the second The tech. installs the Fibre On my road.

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