Cablevision CEO a Verizon FiOS Customer? 72
Keri_Love writes "Cablevision and Verizon are in the middle of heated battle trying to sign up customers for the coveted 'triple play': it's fiber-to-the-premises vs. cable for broadband, television, and phone. Cablevision is slinging lines like 'We're not afraid of your fiber!' Tech blogger Mike Murray discloses evidence that Cablevision's CEO may be enjoying FiOS at home. He writes: 'Click the picture to the right showing a Verizon FiOS can and drop directly above Cablevision's CEO Chuck Dolan's Oyster Bay, Long Island mailbox.' He's not scared! He's a customer!"
give him credit (Score:5, Insightful)
This doesn't have to be evidence that Verizon is better or that Dolan is a hypocrite. It may well be that he deserves credit for checking out the competition, or that his own service isn't available where he lives.
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If you work for McDonald's, are you a hypocrite because you prefer to eat at Burger King ? Do you need to justify yourself by saying you're "checking out the competition" ?
This whole discussion is ridiculous, since it presupposes that people owe loyalty to the companies they work for. They d
Re:give him credit (Score:5, Insightful)
A CEO isn't "just an employee". A CEO represents the company he works for. The position is very sales oriented in most cases. And a CEO is generally elected to that position by the shareholders. There is politics involved, so being politically astute is important.
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And why would he have FiOS when CBV employees gets TV gold package, Internet, and VoIP for free? I get it, and I'm just a tech support slob.
The real reason... (Score:2)
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True... but as a consumer/investor, I prefer my CEO's to "eat their own dog food". While the CEO can get whatever service he wants; he's hurting the company he represents by going with the competition instead of his own service because it shows (or at least looks as if) his own product is lacking what the competition has.
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This is also the guy who, as an AT&T customer, lobbies in his community association to disallow new cell sites, and then calls AT&T to complain there's no reception by his house.
So he's a truly intelligent and consistent individual, but I only know this from my dealings with him.
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I got money, why cant I have everything I want now"
kind of guy?
Let me be the first to say.. (Score:4, Funny)
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I second the "so what". Let's not encourage more companies to make
more stupid rules placing more restrictions on what their employees
do away from work.
Not news, not for nerds, does not matter.
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Actually, people at Pepsi Co sales get fired for drinking coke. So, yes, CEO of Pepsi Co drinking coke *is* a front page news.
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He's showing no such thing. First of all, how do you know he doesn't have both services? He's the CEO of a company, it's his responsibility to know what his competitors are doing. You're not going to see a cable drop from the street. Though my bet is you'd probably see several satellite dishes on top of his house too, if you walked down his driveway. He has to know what all of his compe
he'd be an idiot... (Score:4, Interesting)
Redundant connections (Score:2, Interesting)
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I have Cable Internet via Insight Communications @ around 55$ / month. The only cable offering that I can get. No fiber. DSL is out since I don't have a PSTN line into my house - unless I feel like paying a 20$ loop fee on top of a DSL charge, which makes it more expensive than cable for the same speeds.
If there are more choices, there's always a chance that they'll start fighting each other for marketshare based on price. Every now and again I'll see commercials for DSL reach
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Competition, weak as it is here, is a good thing.
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Two things spring to mind... (Score:5, Insightful)
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I mean I see not just one, but two mail boxes, couldn't the other house have the service?
This just seems like some sort of troll article.
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Even if it is a true FiOS connection, they probably have VPN hardware on there to encrypt the link back to his companies' network. I mean, could you imagine getting a call from the rival CEO asking why you spent so much time on 4chan?
two mailboxes (Score:4, Insightful)
Or his neighbours? (Score:1, Insightful)
Maybe he can't get CableVision. (Score:2)
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What chance to the rest of us have?
Time Warner Fiber? (Score:2)
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Not the right box... (Score:5, Informative)
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I think the whole article is a joke. It says the pictures shows a box above the mailbox... Yes it does... But only because someone's rudimentary photoshop skills pasted the picture there. He references another site (Bernstein Research) but provides no link whatsoever.
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Even if they are from the same camera (and that appears unlikely), it still just looks like a picture of some wires, AND a picture of a mailbox.
That's like taking a picture of me on a John Deere, and a picture of the White House, and then claiming I mow the President's yard.
WTF! (Score:1)
How can you tell if you have FiOS? (Score:2)
Him: "So, how's the new FiOS service?"
Me: "Umm...what FiOS service?"
Him: (Looks at clipboard with one piece of paper on it.) "Looks like we installed here a few weeks back. This your address?"
Me: "Why, yes it is." (Stealth thinking mode kicks in.) "Yeah, sorry, my mind was elsewhere...service is great!"
Him: "And the TV and the internet connectio
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You could tell if you has FiOS service several ways. First, someone would have had to order the service. Second, there would be an ONT (Optical Network Terminal) mounted somewhere on your house as wll as a power supply inside the house. There are 2 different ONT models, Measuring roughly 12"x16" or 12"X12" which has green leds on the inside.
As a Verizon employee I have had FiOS for almost 2 years, and I can say, it is really not much better than other services
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Partially kidding. The conversation was real. Verizon thinks I have FiOS installed. As a previous poster so glibly alluded to, my next Verizon bill will tell the tale.
Since I know I don't have an ONT or battery in the garage, it's highly doubtful I have FiOS. Now to see if Verizon agrees with me...
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Er, why can't you use your TiVo on FiOS?
Sure there is! (Score:5, Funny)
This just in... (Score:2)
What this means (Score:2)
1. The CEO of the company disagrees with the cable companies undisclosed bandwidth tap while advertising "unlimited" access
2. The CEO wants to run a bittorrent client and is sick of dealing with the cable company's illegally compromising his traffic
3. The CEO wants a provider which supports net neutrality
(I kid, I kid. I understand there may be other reasons)
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Verizon's Terms of Service and Acceptible Use Policy (scroll down to the AUP, it's more interesting):
http://www.verizon.net/policies/vzcom/tos_popup.as p [verizon.net]
I researched that when a Verizon salesman came to our house. Note in particular that you may not use the service for
- Anything deemed objectionable by Verizon
- Anything that defames Verizon
- Using hyperlinks that contain the verizon name
- To make off-topic posts to newsgrou
In other news.... (Score:1)
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OLD NEWS (Score:1)
Isn't FiOS better? (Score:1)
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Just looking at FIOS pricing, the options are 5/15/30 Mbps for $40/$50/$180 per month. [verizon.com]
Cablevision offers 15 and 30 Mbps plans for $45 and $60 per month, possibly cheaper if you get additional services from them.
Why should someone care if they have a coax or fiber cable running into their house? The coax connects to a fiber backbone once it hits the util
Not the CEO (Score:1)
They are more than just employees, they control the company.
As others have mentioned, having a Verizon box in the street in front of your house, does not necessarily mean that you are a customer.
It's an outdoor wire box, not a subscriber box (Score:2)
When someone subscribes, they run a drop fiber to the home and mount an Optical Network
Old News (Score:1)
Verizon FiOS , can they see me? (Score:2)
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Given that I live in Maine... (Score:1)
Lucky Him (Score:2)
I'd be happy if I were able to get FiOS at my house. I guess being super-rich has its privileges.