FiOS coming to La Plata !

[bray]

thanks alot mann. when its actually hooked up i will enjoy it!

i actually registered and posted that to let others know. that there really is hope. no matter where you live in la plata there is a chance.

i couldnt beleive they came down this road. they are even doing robert morgan pl. which is like. a dirt road. off of my dirt road. that basically goes into a forest. lol. (but it actually also connects straight to cooksey.)

ehh. =]


If you change the month in the link of the construction plans. you can go back as far as august and basically see there progress. I brought up google map and looked how they are moving. i used to live in carrington. i have also lived in laurel branch off of 228. so i know wladorf and la plata very well. in waldorf they have moved from mattawoman beantown, and were in huntington, wakefield and bannister. at least the main roads there anyway. i think they will progress more as well. towards fairway etc.

[MarylandMark]

The northeast corridor carries the rest of the Verizon footprint. The sooner Verizon sells them off, the better IMHO. Verizon would be rich if they didn't have to support the money losing states.

My stock options might even be worth some thing...

[bfncbs1]

Originally Posted by MarylandMark

The northeast corridor carries the rest of the Verizon footprint. The sooner Verizon sells them off, the better IMHO. Verizon would be rich if they didn't have to support the money losing states.

My stock options might even be worth some thing...

My options expire this year.....Should of cashed them a year and a half ago when they finally pushed above the option price. Oh well

[hockeynutmd]

Originally Posted by bfncbs1

My options expire this year.....Should of cashed them a year and a half ago when they finally pushed above the option price. Oh well

I wish we all had another OPTION besides Verizon!

[zetasoul]

@bray

Thank you soooo much for giving me hope. We don't have any choices beside satellite and mobile broadband either. I am trembling from exciting from reading your post. I too live on a dirt road off route 5 (Windy knolls). I did the same thing as you, looking at the construction schedule and checking the progress on google maps.

The other day I saw a verizon technician down my road checking things out. Hopefully that's a good sign.

Originally Posted by bray

thanks alot mann. when its actually hooked up i will enjoy it!

i actually registered and posted that to let others know. that there really is hope. no matter where you live in la plata there is a chance.

i couldnt beleive they came down this road. they are even doing robert morgan pl. which is like. a dirt road. off of my dirt road. that basically goes into a forest. lol. (but it actually also connects straight to cooksey.)

ehh. =]


If you change the month in the link of the construction plans. you can go back as far as august and basically see there progress. I brought up google map and looked how they are moving. i used to live in carrington. i have also lived in laurel branch off of 228. so i know wladorf and la plata very well. in waldorf they have moved from mattawoman beantown, and were in huntington, wakefield and bannister. at least the main roads there anyway. i think they will progress more as well. towards fairway etc.

[zetasoul]

I too was sad about the cap imposed by Millenicom and when they raised the price of the unlimited plan. However, when you have no other options, you'll have to swallow the cost. I would happily pay twice as much if I have other options like FiOS.

I thought about Cricket too, but their coverage is deplorable. Millenicom uses Sprint and Verizon. Sprint is unlimited while Verizon is capped.

Originally Posted by hailtoby

I have millenicom. up until 2 months ago they offered unlimited plans. Now they have the standard 5gig cap just like all the other providers.

Cricket just started an unlimited plan for $40/month versus $60/month of millenicom. Cricket also has no contract, but they dont provide service in my area of la plata. Im pretty sure cricket leases airtime form tmobile while mmillenicom leases airtime from att and verizon.

[MarylandMark]

Originally Posted by bfncbs1

My options expire this year.....Should of cashed them a year and a half ago when they finally pushed above the option price. Oh well

I knew it was too good to be true for them to hand us money like that!

Selling may have covered taxes after the sale- LOL!

[onthehill]

Originally Posted by bfncbs1

FiOS and the 1x8 splitter won't be approved until next year and even after approval it will be a while since from a cost perspective it doesn't make sense for now.

Dubois Rd? What end of Dubois because on the side near route 6 DSL is available.

LTE? Still a unknown from a pricing and cap level. The cap will be raised be to what level I don't know. Pricing? I have no clue but should be comparable to EVDO.

As far as Hughesnet goes I dumped them years ago solely on poor technical support and latency that was always around 800-900ms. I chose EVDo even with the small cap just because of the latency alone and semi decent tech support. Satellite is the biggest ripoff out there with the huge upfront cost, monthly cost and poor service. Hope something works out for you.

I live on the Trinity Church Rd end of Dubois Road, on the corner. What are the odds that we will get FIOS in 2010? I don't understand why we haven't gotten something down Dubois, since we definitely have the required houses per mile. What broadband company is on Route 6 at Dubois?

[bfncbs1]

Originally Posted by onthehill

I live on the Trinity Church Rd end of Dubois Road, on the corner. What are the odds that we will get FIOS in 2010? I don't understand why we haven't gotten something down Dubois, since we definitely have the required houses per mile. What broadband company is on Route 6 at Dubois?

DSL on on the Dubois side from route 6. Since your on the Trinity side you are fed from the La Plata Central office. The other side is fed from the Mechanicsville central office which was wired for DSL :-)

FiOS iin 2010 for our area won't happen. Earliest would be 2011.

[onthehill]

Originally Posted by bfncbs1

DSL on on the Dubois side from route 6. Since your on the Trinity side you are fed from the La Plata Central office. The other side is fed from the Mechanicsville central office which was wired for DSL :-)

FiOS iin 2010 for our area won't happen. Earliest would be 2011.

Do they already have the list out for 2010?