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0 pointspwarner12y ago0 comments

Depends how you define token? They have about 5 million subscribers on FTTH. Supposedly passing 18M houses.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verizon_FiOS#Stable_footprint_....

Note: I was focused on them being technical leaders. Which they were. I make no endorsement of their business practices. Also they were not the first to FTTH in the US or not the world, just the first big mover in the US.

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lotsofpulp12y ago· 1 in thread

Sorry, I was talking about the huge about-face they did once smartphones became popular and they realized there were much larger profit margins to be had in the wireless industry, so basically started shutting down expansion of fiber internet.

yuhong12y ago

I think Ivan Seidenberg was fired because of short term returns on FiOS being low.

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