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Wanna Bet? Can you say Frontier Communications? BTW Florida has been sold for years now.
FiOS coming to La Plata !
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Wanna Bet? Can you say Frontier Communications? BTW Florida has been sold for years now.
bfncbs1
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Frontier bought 14 rural states from Verizon(pending approval) recently because we have no intentions to roll FiOS into those areas. Outside of Indiana none have FiOS. From a business and investor perspective it only made sense to sell off unprofitable areas and areas that would of been copper services only.
We offer FiOS and copper service in several areas in Florida. Tampa, Sarasota, Clearwater, Kissimmee, St Petersburg, Seminole, Lakeland just to mention a few. Florida is carved up between AT&T, Verizon and a few other carriers.
Hawaii we sold a few years ago.
okay. let me just start my story.
I live in La Plata. Off Route 6. Off of Cooksey Rd.
I have never had any option for high speed internet other than satellite. (other than verizon 3G which i am using now).
I have always been hopeful that one day i will be able to get some better internet.
internet for me. is something with good download and upload. but a huge thing to me is latency as well. I am a gamer and i cant play online with 2000ping satelite gives me.
soo. onto fios. 1-2 months ago i saw some verizon trucks down cooksey. and within the week they had been installing these boxes all over my neighborhood. which is actually a small development IMO.
I was getting my hopes up saying oh its fios its fios. but then i realized i live off a dirt road in the very back of the neighborhood. then about a week ago, some guy came down here and spray orange/red lines everywhere. on my yard and down the road. and again i was like maybe fios is coming. then the day before yesterday. i saw trucks digging up my road. alll dayyy. I looked at the what the trucks said. i thought it said MTI. so i googled what the company was. with nothing. then i googled fios in la plata and found this thread and read ALOT of it.
then i found a link with contruction plans etc.
and for the month of october.i saw the contractor "NTI" and i got excited.. then to my surprise my street was listed.. and i was definately overwhelmed. something i have been waiting for.. for years. yes. truth be told. we just actually terminated our hughesnet internet. its a ripoff. but it was better than dial up. =/ but yes. excited. =D
i read people telling others. dont expect to get fios if you live on a dirt road, and have no other internets out there. cause it is happening to me.
cooksey rd. if not everyone knows. connects to penns hill and route 6.
just shring my story. thanks for reading. =]
I live in La Plata. Off Route 6. Off of Cooksey Rd.
I have never had any option for high speed internet other than satellite. (other than verizon 3G which i am using now).
I have always been hopeful that one day i will be able to get some better internet.
internet for me. is something with good download and upload. but a huge thing to me is latency as well. I am a gamer and i cant play online with 2000ping satelite gives me.
soo. onto fios. 1-2 months ago i saw some verizon trucks down cooksey. and within the week they had been installing these boxes all over my neighborhood. which is actually a small development IMO.
I was getting my hopes up saying oh its fios its fios. but then i realized i live off a dirt road in the very back of the neighborhood. then about a week ago, some guy came down here and spray orange/red lines everywhere. on my yard and down the road. and again i was like maybe fios is coming. then the day before yesterday. i saw trucks digging up my road. alll dayyy. I looked at the what the trucks said. i thought it said MTI. so i googled what the company was. with nothing. then i googled fios in la plata and found this thread and read ALOT of it.
then i found a link with contruction plans etc.
and for the month of october.i saw the contractor "NTI" and i got excited.. then to my surprise my street was listed.. and i was definately overwhelmed. something i have been waiting for.. for years. yes. truth be told. we just actually terminated our hughesnet internet. its a ripoff. but it was better than dial up. =/ but yes. excited. =D
i read people telling others. dont expect to get fios if you live on a dirt road, and have no other internets out there. cause it is happening to me.
cooksey rd. if not everyone knows. connects to penns hill and route 6.
just shring my story. thanks for reading. =]
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bfncbs1
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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.
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.
bfncbs1
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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
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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!
@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.
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.
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.
I thought about Cricket too, but their coverage is deplorable. Millenicom uses Sprint and Verizon. Sprint is unlimited while Verizon is capped.
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
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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.
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?
bfncbs1
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Not yet. The only thing I know for sure is the amount of new offices for 2010 is extremely small. Maryland in general will only have 5-6 new offices for FiOS.
Any more info on this? I'm just wondering how they can go down 301 and down 234 as far as Trinity when they can't even complete Penns Hill Road!
hockeynutmd
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While were asking questions about FiOS...how do they have it in Hughesville as well?
bfncbs1
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They don't have it in Hughesville. It has to be fed from La Plata. No equipment in Hughesville to provide FiOS.
Where in Hughesville is the speculation?
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Actually on 234 they stopped just past Glasva School road and never went any further. Where it has stopped now on both Penns Hill and 234 it won't go any further until 1 of 2 possible things happen. Either a 1/8 splitter gets approved or the PON's in the La Plata central office get there cards upgraded in the near future to 40km reach(which hasn't been tested or approved).
hockeynutmd
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They don't have it in Hughesville. It has to be fed from La Plata. No equipment in Hughesville to provide FiOS.
Where in Hughesville is the speculation?
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There are FiOS drops all over telephone poles down 231 all the way down to Aquasco Road. Also, if I'm not mistaken, I believe they have it at Hotel Charles.
I guess there isn't any additional information on FIOS for Stonestreet Rd? I wonder if a petition would help. Or I could just move to the entrance of my neighborhood! But seriously, I wouldn't even know who to send a petition to, or if Verizon would even care. But we can never give up hope!
I second that petition Geester. I want internet, I pay too much in taxes to this County not to have internet.