I've been seeing this thing about Verizon offering up a free HD TV when you sign up for their FIOS service.

Thing is, despite signing an agreement (I need to find this, I remember reading about it more than a year ago) to extend the service to all of my counties residents it is still only mostly available in the most affluent neighborhoods.

I want a free ****ing TV. And I've wanted Fiber Optic internet for over a year now. What because I don't live in Richy McRichersonville I don't get your golden internet or TV? LAME. LAME I SAY.




This seems ripe for a class action lawsuit. Through the power of the internet I'm sure I could reach more people with this, but I have no idea how to go about it.

Anyone know anything about stuff like this?


I'm not out for a free TV or anything. I just want them to stop screwing people. There are some families that could really use the TV on top of the FIOS service, which is cheaper than what we all pay for cable, (we only have the option for one carrier here and they suck balls) phone, and broadband (Their slowest FIOS service would be great for ALOT of people).

Talk to a lawyer

Im pretty sure a lot of it has to do with the actual cost of laying down fiber optic cables.


So yea, it sounds like you are out for a tv :p

They might also be installing it where it will relieve the stress the most.

There is no class action suit here. Verizon has done nothing wrong. FIOS distribution will follow DSL and Cable distribution. It goes out to the people who are most likely to buy it (richer, more affluent neighborhoods) because it costs a lot of money to lay down the cable, and they want to be sure they make their money off of it. So they start with the richer people who are more likely to have the money to pay for it, and then it filters down.

It's sleezy, but it's good business practice from their point of view, and it ensures profits. But it isn't illegal any more than people who have to use satellite internet because they don't have any cable/dsl lines out in wherevertheylive.

Yep. If there's a case, a lawyer will have the resources to put together a class much more easily than you could.

Edit: Never mind, didn't really know the details until happydud's post. He's right, they're not really doing anything wrong. There might be a breach of contract depending on how long the agreement gave them to extend the service to everyone, but I don't know about that.

That is the dumbest thing ive ever heard.

I know you not just looking to get a free TV or anything, but I would say you should still get one.

It is alfter all the "America" way to sue when things get sour. Yet, not to follow that horrid trend, I think you have the right, nay, you have an obligation to stick it to the man, or in your case Verizon.

Uh.. "land of the free" doesn't mean everyone gets a free TV. It's a promotional gimmick designed to get more people to buy onto their service.

I know some people who were offered this, it's a 20" TV. That's barely bigger than most people's monitors.



I guess that wasn't really clear - it's not even an issue of that. It's an issue of them having to lay down all new fiber cable (which is really expensive and time consuming to lay down) in order to extend their service. So it's not that they're saying "Okay, we're only going to give you people service." It's more "We're going to lay down this cable, and only people from here to here are within range of connecting to it, so you're the only people that get it until we extend the cable further."

Verizon is under no obligation to anyone - its customers, the government, anyway - to bring FIOS service to everyone.

I want fios so bad it hurts.

Jeez.

You still post here?

Buzz off.










I ask because I want them to stop ****ing me over. You'd think they'd want to put one over on our cable company. In my neighborhood we don't have another choice for cable. So naturally the television service here sucks balls.

Same thing goes with verizon. They're the only broadband service provider around that is worth a damn. Cavalier Telephone only offers speeds up to 768kbps (more like 386) for the same thing verizon charges.

My verizon service is also unreliable, even at times that aren't peak. They basically refuse to fix it. About 6 years ago lightning struck a telephone poll in the neighborhood during this really bad electrical storm (this caused my router to melt, no ****).

They sent a technician out to re-route the phone service. The problem with that is that it physically put me out of range of the signal I had been recieving for atleast one year. They refused to fix a problem they thought didn't exist. (After the same technician came out for like the 8th time he told us the company was having him tell us the problem was on our side because the company didn't want to pay to fix it. There weren't enough customers in the area affected for it to be cost effective)


Of course, I have no real proof. Last time I called, they won't accept my testimonial because they can "detect no problem, or lost packets."



I'm moving in like 8 months. I could care. But seriously, do they do this everywhere? I'm not exactly moving to richy mcrichpersontown where I'm going either. :/

Fiber is already ran along major highways, and in urban areas, most major streets... so tapping a line to your house is fairly feaseable... (from what i have come to understand) but for those of us (me too unfortunately) who are outside the boundaries.... well too bad...

Its this way every time a new service comes out, i remember when DSL was all the rage and people couldnt get it unless they were within 3-5 miles of the server. Now its like 10-20 isnt it?

I'm pretty sure there is a fiberoptic line less than about 60 yards from the house, it runs an adjacent street towards the city, and to a nearby school.

Heh, I've kind of got the same situation. Just about 500 meters away from here these corporate types got their fancy fiber optic Internets. All the way through the snow. Mustards.

dig for it, if it glows when you break it you know it was live. maybe then they will take you seriously

You want to sue because you're not getting a free TV and fiber optic lines?

waaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

I want the neighborhood to sue because we're tired of *******s. :/

Suing won't get you anywhere. You have to provide some kind of data that will show the company that investing in all the new high speed stuff will be profitable for them. No business is going to lay down the infrastructure for high speed internet and other services if only a handful of people are going to pay for the services.