Some Surprises Are Pleasant
Whatever I can say about Verizon’s goofy installation of our FiOS, it did achieve one thing: lower phone bill.
With DSL and unlimited “Freedom” calling, our bill was $102 and change.
When we signed up for FiOS, the same calling plan was being offered for considerably less, but for some reason I thought FiOS broadband would be the same or $5 higher. Maybe it’s a promotional rate and I’m forgetting they said that. I only remember the low calling plan and the waived installation fee ($70, as I recall, which is low for the minimum of two hours it takes; generally 4 - 6 hours), because they really want to get it rolled out widely. Gives them a ready market when they launch FiOS TV in this town, and I figure they’re employing guys to do these “last mile” installs whether they get solidly booked with orders or not.
Anyway, it’s $76.71 for a month, and only $19.95 of that is designated as internet. Nice. I wasn’t sure what the deal was from the last bill, which was $78. I thought is was for a partial month on the old plan, but it may have been part of a month of one and part of a month the other. I just assumed the bill would have been higher for a whole month, thus waiting until now to see.
Yay for saving money!
Yea! Capitalists like saving money. Just Damn!
Posted by Dax Montana on 07/21 at 02:25 PMI’m still waiting for FiOS to make its appearance here in central New Hampshire. At the moment only Rockingham and portions of Hillsborough counties are covered by fiber.
It makes sense to hit the high population density areas first (not that NH has many of those to begin with), with the less populated areas to follow some time later. I do know that Verizon still claims that at least 90% of their residential customers will have access to FiOS by 2009.
We’ll see.
Posted by DCE on 07/21 at 04:53 PM
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