Saturday, 20 June 2015

New York slams Verizon, calls city-wide FiOS rollout "an egregious failure"

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Ask New Yorkers about Verizon FiOS, and you’ll get one of two answers. If they are one of the lucky people who have access, they’ll swoon about its fantastic speeds. If not, you’ll hear tales of frustration about fruitlessly waiting years for FiOS to make it to their doorsteps.


It wasn’t supposed to be this way. When the City of New York signed a franchise agreement with Verizon to build out its fiber-optic network across the five boroughs, everyone — or nearly everyone — was supposed to be able to sign up for FiOS by 2014. The deadline has come and gone, but millions of New Yorkers still say they can’t order FiOS in their homes.


Now, New York is calling out Verizon for failing to hold up its end of the deal. An audit published this…


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