Less talk more action. Verizon Fios = no HD Video on Demand. Verizon Fios triple play in PA is limited to 5/2 internet. Where is all this bandwidth?

This is all nice, you(Verizon) like to say how you're bring blazing broadband to the masses when in fact I being one of the masses has watched you deploy all around me without so much as a future ETA for service. And when I say all around me I mean exactly that. Two blocks away in Forest Hills, Queens I can get FiOS and in Bayside, Queens I can get FiOS. What’s even more frustrating is that I saw the Verizon truck tearing up the street and blocking traffic for about 2 months, the whole time I thought surely FiOS was going to be available to me. But of course by the time the truck moved on I heard about people 2 blocks away enjoy something that might take 10yrs to get to me. I've been a loyal Verizon DSL customer for 6yrs. I had DSL when it used to cut out every other night. Even as cable broadband which was also available to me, was cranking up the speeds I stuck with Verizon because I thought Verizon was a better run company and didn't subject its customers to ridiculous limitations like capping and port blocking. But now with FiOS vs. DOCSIS 3.0 it’s a no-brainer, Time Warner will gladly throw equipment and service at me as long as I pay my bill. Maybe it will take a year or 2 but I can rest assured they will offer it to me. However with FiOS I can't say you will ever even give me the option to join. Cable is offered to all customers equally where as FiOS is offered to the affluent exclusively, widening the digital divide that the government is so desperately trying to bridge. 400Mbps is appreciably greater than what DOCSIS 3.0 might ever achieve but in terms of relevance to the broader population of this country it's rather insignificant. Even as all this stares me in the face I still continue to hold on to the notion that Verizon will change its FiOS deployment policy. If not for a humanitarian choice then for a more economically viable one, my area is made up of a mixture of apartment dwellings and homes, basically every block has the potential for hundreds of subscribers where as an area of homes only equates to a small fraction of this.

Well, service package is designed to compete with cable which is offering the same sort of speed (and we actually deliver the speed, as opposed to cable). As for HD, we have all the HD channels -- a couple of dozen in most places -- that are available to us. And FiOS has the capacity to offer more as time goes on.

I read your post with a mixture of apprecaition of the value you place on FiOS and disappointment that we haven't yet gotten to your neighborhood. If we're deploying as you say "all around" you, then there's a good chance we'll serve you soon before cable gets there with DOCSIS 3.0. I must make this point, however: Our deployment is not based on economic conditions of neighborhoods as you insist. Rather we deploy based on factors like where we can build contiguious to places where we have already deployed, where our existing facilities need to be replaced, where the community has shown an interest in getting FiOS and so forth. So we've deployed in Staten Island, hardly a bastion of the super rich, and in each of the other NYC boroughs. Many parts of New York pose a special problem because the housing is mostly multiple dwelling units. First the technology to service these buildings has been later in arriving, but additionally these buildings require an extra step -- the agreement of the landlord or housing association -- before we can deploy. Also many are controlled by cable which has exclusive agreements for service. Then too, deploying FiOS is a huge project, and obviously we can't get everywhere at once. There is also a business reason to deploy across the economic spectrum too -- not just a humanitarian one. The fact is that our services often sell very well in areas that some might consider less than affluent. The facts don't back up the claim our competitors in cable often make loud and long suggesting we are only deploying to the wealthy.

So when can you acquire AT&T and bring FIOS into SoCal?

I have been waiting here in Staten isalnd for the TV portion to my fios package for almost 7 months.I am adding 2 new tvs and hate to add additional Direct TV boxes.When will u finally be able to provide Television to the fios package.