http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/10/18/is-verizons-fios-out-of-bandwidth/ Engadget HD Comments for Is Verizon's FiOS out of bandwidth? http://www.engadgethd.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadgethd.com en-us Copyright 2008 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/10/18/is-verizons-fios-out-of-bandwidth/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/10/18/is-verizons-fios-out-of-bandwidth/Oct 18th 2007 12:19PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/10/18/is-verizons-fios-out-of-bandwidth/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/10/18/is-verizons-fios-out-of-bandwidth/Oct 18th 2007 12:20PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/10/18/is-verizons-fios-out-of-bandwidth/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/10/18/is-verizons-fios-out-of-bandwidth/Oct 18th 2007 12:21PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/10/18/is-verizons-fios-out-of-bandwidth/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/10/18/is-verizons-fios-out-of-bandwidth/Oct 18th 2007 1:09PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/10/18/is-verizons-fios-out-of-bandwidth/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/10/18/is-verizons-fios-out-of-bandwidth/Oct 18th 2007 1:20PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/10/18/is-verizons-fios-out-of-bandwidth/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/10/18/is-verizons-fios-out-of-bandwidth/Oct 18th 2007 1:39PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/10/18/is-verizons-fios-out-of-bandwidth/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/10/18/is-verizons-fios-out-of-bandwidth/Oct 18th 2007 1:52PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/10/18/is-verizons-fios-out-of-bandwidth/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/10/18/is-verizons-fios-out-of-bandwidth/Thanks for the reference, but when Verizon goes IPTV, I'll probably go else where. I just don't have time for sub-par DVRs and I doubt they'll support TiVo if the FCC doesn't force them to.]]>Oct 18th 2007 1:53PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/10/18/is-verizons-fios-out-of-bandwidth/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/10/18/is-verizons-fios-out-of-bandwidth/
Does anyone know if CableCard will still work when they switch to IPTV? Or if Media Center will support FIOS IPTV?]]>Oct 18th 2007 1:57PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/10/18/is-verizons-fios-out-of-bandwidth/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/10/18/is-verizons-fios-out-of-bandwidth/Oct 18th 2007 3:48PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/10/18/is-verizons-fios-out-of-bandwidth/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/10/18/is-verizons-fios-out-of-bandwidth/Oct 18th 2007 9:06PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/10/18/is-verizons-fios-out-of-bandwidth/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/10/18/is-verizons-fios-out-of-bandwidth/Oct 18th 2007 9:26PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/10/18/is-verizons-fios-out-of-bandwidth/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/10/18/is-verizons-fios-out-of-bandwidth/
You can probably tell I am coming from cable, where the quality, if you want to call it that, is bottom of the barrel. Not sure how it compares in quality to satellite, but I wouldn't change a thing so far, though yes. Getting the new HD channels would be nice. When I last talked to them, they suggested they were 'on the way'. Douse that with salt, and you have it all...]]>Oct 18th 2007 11:56PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/10/18/is-verizons-fios-out-of-bandwidth/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/10/18/is-verizons-fios-out-of-bandwidth/
My initial reaction is that it still blows Comca$t clean out of the water, but I am increasingly frustrated with the lack of additional HD channels.

But we all need to remember that this is a new market and a new player in that market. I'll give Verizon one year (when my contract is up in May!) and then decide if I want to attach two dishes to my house again.]]>Oct 19th 2007 10:07AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/10/18/is-verizons-fios-out-of-bandwidth/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/10/18/is-verizons-fios-out-of-bandwidth/Oct 19th 2007 11:02AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/10/18/is-verizons-fios-out-of-bandwidth/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/10/18/is-verizons-fios-out-of-bandwidth/
The statement is flat out wrong. FiOS does have it right now in certain test markets such as Hampton Road. They will roll out HD onDemand once testing is completed. But I could careless, I don't have nor want their pricey HD STD at the moment. CableCard is good enough right now, 2-way interactions is only a year or two down the road.]]>Oct 19th 2007 11:13AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/10/18/is-verizons-fios-out-of-bandwidth/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/10/18/is-verizons-fios-out-of-bandwidth/Oct 19th 2007 11:43AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/10/18/is-verizons-fios-out-of-bandwidth/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/10/18/is-verizons-fios-out-of-bandwidth/
I would go one step further and say even more important than not placating and disappointing your customers with a simple "Stay Tuned" is to have correct grammar in your blog in the first place. John 'CZ' Czwartacki must have stopped taking English classes in the 4th grade; his blog post is a hack-job at best and I am as insulted by his inability to assemble a sentence correctly as I am with his sweeping generalizations and lack of substantive facts.

I am a FiOS customer and I do enjoy my data service and crisp, clear SDTV. I have yet to upgrade to HD mostly because of the lack of programming. I am not an impartial consumer because I work for a nationally franchised competitor of Verizon. That says a lot for FiOS but the kind of useless grandstanding that John 'CZ' Czwartacki is doing in this blog is repulsive. Verizon needs to clean its ranks of this class of employee and focus on delivering consistent, competitive and innovative service. How a green stick like John got to be the Executive Director of External Communications is a mystery to me when simply pasting his blog into Microsoft Word yielded so many green squiggley lines I didn't even bother counting them.]]>Nov 1st 2007 4:37PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/10/18/is-verizons-fios-out-of-bandwidth/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/10/18/is-verizons-fios-out-of-bandwidth/Nov 15th 2007 11:07AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/10/18/is-verizons-fios-out-of-bandwidth/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/10/18/is-verizons-fios-out-of-bandwidth/
I've been waiting for FIOS in my zip 90713 for one year now. My neighbors one block away (literally), have had it for over six months. I've been told that we may get it by the end of '08, as it's coming from a different office. It's an easy above-ground route too. :(

This delay, and DirecTV's lineup, is likely to spur a commitment to satellite.
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EngadgetHD: What's wrong with your network?
Verizon: We have the best network!
EngadgetHD: Um.. okay. I guess I'll say they're 'not talking' because they didn't address my question but instead fed me some PR boilerplate about how epic their 'just a matter of adding new equipment' (not to be mistaken for being outdated) network is.
Verizon: This is an outrage! *cue feigned anguish*

Yeah Fios sounds pretty sweet but I wouldn't exactly consider the current response to EngadgetHD's curiosity a 'brand win'. Rather quite the opposite.]]>Nov 1st 2007 6:57PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/10/18/is-verizons-fios-out-of-bandwidth/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/10/18/is-verizons-fios-out-of-bandwidth/Besides, the video network is separate from the data network all the way up to the fiber hub, at which point the PON will take care of you without any trouble.]]>Nov 4th 2007 1:32PM