Has Buck lost control of the clubhouse (and his senses)?

[SteveO]

I have Verizon, I looked at the bundles, it's terrible. It looks more like a way to postpone real ala carte service.

Yup its just repackaging them, sprucing them up and still shoving stuff down your throat you don't care about.

At least Verizon is better positioned than Comcast though, their fiber backbone is far better and will better support the entertainment preferences of the future. Add in the fact that Verizon as a business is far more diversified, I expect over time that Comcast, Time Warner and companies like that who are particularly stubborn to change and slow to invest in it, to be the ultimate losers.

[Going Underground]

Yup its just repackaging them, sprucing them up and still shoving stuff down your throat you don't care about.

At least Verizon is better positioned than Comcast though, their fiber backbone is far better and will better support the entertainment preferences of the future. Add in the fact that Verizon as a business is far more diversified, I expect over time that Comcast, Time Warner and companies like that who are particularly stubborn to change and slow to invest in it, to be the ultimate losers.

But Verizon has stopped putting in the rest of the fiber lines. I have noticed in areas that do not have Fios ,Verizon sends out bundle packages with Direct TV.Baltimore City will probably never have FIOS in most of the city. TWC and Comcast tried to merge but it did not work.

[Going Underground]

FiOS is available around Baltimore, MD, but it?s not available within the city limits.

It doesn?t look like much, but the coverage equates to about 12% of the U.S. population. It is broken down by county for a complete visual representation. If you don?t live near a FiOS area, it?s not likely you?ll see it anytime soon.

http://fiberforall.org/fios-map/

[Can_of_corn]

But Verizon has stopped putting in the rest of the fiber lines. I have noticed in areas that do not have Fios ,Verizon sends out bundle packages with Direct TV.Baltimore City will probably never have FIOS in most of the city. TWC and Comcast tried to merge but it did not work.

FiOS is available around Baltimore, MD, but it?s not available within the city limits.

It doesn?t look like much, but the coverage equates to about 12% of the U.S. population. It is broken down by county for a complete visual representation. If you don?t live near a FiOS area, it?s not likely you?ll see it anytime soon.

http://fiberforall.org/fios-map/

Verizon sold (pending approval) its assets down here in FL and a couple other states to Frontier.

http://www.tampabay.com/news/business/verizon-sells-its-tampa-bay-tv-internet-landline-phone-services-to-frontier/2216642

[SteveO]

But Verizon has stopped putting in the rest of the fiber lines. I have noticed in areas that do not have Fios ,Verizon sends out bundle packages with Direct TV.Baltimore City will probably never have FIOS in most of the city. TWC and Comcast tried to merge but it did not work.

I expect in the long term that Verizon will migrate to the Google model of wiring cities and residential areas. It basically works like this. In Kansas City, Google divided the region into areas of a few hundred homes it called "fiberhoods" and asked residents to pay $10 to preregister for a service that would operate at one gigabit per second, about 100 times the U.S. average. The service now costs $70 a month. Once a certain threshold is met, they install the service in those areas.

Once again, Google is light years ahead of the competition. Yes they do not have nearly the coverage of Verizon or Comcast but they have a superior product (vastly) at the same price or less than the one offered by Verizon and Comcast. They also have the financial resources to go much faster but are actually taking there time and refining the product. For Google providing internet access is only solidifying their position as the gateway of the internet, for them its a business that if profitable fine, if not that fine to because it will drive the profitability of their other products. Kinda like how at one time there were only a few Red Box's and a Blockbuster on nearly every other corner.....how did that end? I predict in 30yrs most of us will be buying internet access from Google.