Verizon's FiOS is biting hard in those markets where it is available, stealing customers from traditional cable providers left, right and center. Availability remains skimpy, however, with rural communities barely miles from such wired towns still unable to get any broadband at all.
According to intelligence firm OneTrak, which examined 34 Massachusetts cities where fiber is offered as an all-in-one replacement for 'net, TV and phone, subscriber losses for the cable firms can exceeed 10 percent in the first wave of deployment. From Broadband Reports:
In the same state, however, 63 municipalities contain areas with no fast internet whatsoever. This is a quiet reminder of the fact the telcos were paid by the taxpayer to build their fiber-optic networks years ago, but somehow have only got around to doing so in big-city markets anyway. It's like socialism, except the money went to proftable corporations instead of the government. Enjoy!
FiOS entry in Massachusetts doesn’t uniformly wound competitors [Onetrak BR]
