Just an update on the
Time Warner Cable/
Verizon FiOS legal spat, Multichannel News is reporting a federal judge denied Verizon's request for a temporary restraining order to get the ads its deemed misleading off the air immediately. We can see why they'd think that, with the ads seeming to imply
FiOS requires a dish (it doesn't) and that Time Warner uses fiber too (not really the same), but Judge Lewis Kaplan didn't feel it necessary to block them before a hearing on Verizon's preliminary injunction motion April 21. Check out the ads on our
previous post and see how accurate they appear to you. [
Disclosure: Engadget is part of the Time Warner family]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
AwlAmericanDawg @ Apr 16th 2008 2:23PM
LOL now Verizon comes? That commercial has been on since like when I went up north over the summer last year!
I was thinking the same thing when i saw that comercial, they tottaly mislead a lot of the people that don't know much about FiOS
courtenay27 @ Apr 16th 2008 2:40PM
I agree that these ads are annoying and prey on the less informed consumer by appearing to imply that FIOS requires a dish and that Verizon and TW's fiber usage is the same but in the commercial the actor playing the home owner says specifically "Just to get TV from you now, don't I need a satellite dish?".
"NOW" being the important word in the ad, I think, and why Verizon's suit holds little to no ground (again, my opinion). I say this because I live within metro Columbus, OH (a pretty decent area for telecommunications competition) and according to Verizon's website as of this afternoon FIOS service is still not available at my address which means the ONLY television service I could possibly get from Verizon is their Direct TV service which, as the ad says, does require a dish.
Just my $0.02 on the engadget interwebs, for what it's worth.
JD @ Apr 16th 2008 5:16PM
This ad is not being used in your market, it is being used in the markets were Verizon Fios goes head to head with TWC. So, it is a misleading ad ad on TWC's part.
I only see this ad whenever I'm watching Fox NY, I'm in DC.
Stormprobe @ Apr 16th 2008 4:41PM
haha, Verizon is complaining about misleading ads. That's funny.
a-l-e-x @ Apr 29th 2008 10:49PM
Talk about the pot calling the kettle black. Its Verizon who should be sued for their incessant fios commercials. As a matter of fact, Ive called cablevision asking them to pull all fios commercials off the air. This is the same big bad pots company that wanted to have voip rates increased and one of the companies being sued for wiretapping us. Their fios commercials are misleading because in no way, shape or form is fios internet better than cable. I get 30mbps cable and verizon cant match that. Even if they could, I have serious ethical and privacy issues with them. Anyone interested in democracy should NEVER choose Verizon.
Kompressor @ Apr 16th 2008 5:29PM
If all misleading ads were blocked, there wouldn't be any ads to see.
Please, block all misleading ads!
alexreynolds @ Apr 29th 2008 11:38PM
Talk about the pot calling the kettle black. Its Verizon who should be sued for their incessant fios commercials. As a matter of fact, Ive called cablevision asking them to pull all fios commercials off the air. This is the same big bad pots company that wanted to have voip rates increased and one of the companies being sued for wiretapping us. Their fios commercials are misleading because in no way, shape or form is fios internet better than cable. I get 30mbps cable and verizon cant match that. Even if they could, I have serious ethical and privacy issues with them. Anyone interested in democracy should NEVER choose Verizon.