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They are running lines in my street today and wondering what everyone thinks of fios vs optimum.
One strike against fios for me is that you need a box on every television. I have 4 tv's currently that do not have a box connected and I would liked to keep it that way.
If a door to door Fios salesman comes to your door ask to talk to his mom. They lie about pricing and will change your order to make the most commission.
I canceled my order when I found what they intended to install was not what I ordered. The phone calls to try to straighten this mess out took over 2 hours, I finaly gave up and canceled.
The Dolans are not my favorites but they do know how to run a business
I also switched in Feb and love it. But as everyone else says the billing sucks. spent over an hour each month getting the bill straightened out. the 4th month I told them charge me the disconnect fee I am done with them. After getting an even better deal then i had and a promise that the billing would be correct on the next bill which it has been I am very happy.
Al
Have Fios, its probably a bit more expensive than Optimum (especially with the Movie package), but the fact Cablevision still doesn't carry the NFL Network is simply a no go.
Have Fios, its probably a bit more expensive than Optimum (especially with the Movie package), but the fact Cablevision still doesn't carry the NFL Network is simply a no go.
That was the clincher for me! I watch that channel so much, I cant get enough of all the old school footage and the replays of games. My billing has been right on the money so far. I will be paying less for a lot more for the first 6 months and then slightly more for a lot more the final 18 months. The search interface is much more responsive and is light years ahead of the CV box technology it seems.
That was the clincher for me! I watch that channel so much, I cant get enough of all the old school footage and the replays of games. My billing has been right on the money so far. I will be paying less for a lot more for the first 6 months and then slightly more for a lot more the final 18 months. The search interface is much more responsive and is light years ahead of the CV box technology it seems.
It does go up quite a bit once your out of the first six months, and if I were to switch to Optimum I probably would save a bit, but its not worth it imo. In fact I had someone from Optimum call me a few weeks back to switch saying they could save me $$$ (which was probably true) and point blank said I really don't care how much you can save me, unless you guys carry the NFL network you don't have a chance in hell of getting me to go back to Cablevision.
Of course if the Giants play the way they did last year I wouldn't have to worry about it either way because I would have a broken television
It does go up quite a bit once your out of the first six months, and if I were to switch to Optimum I probably would save a bit, but its not worth it imo. In fact I had someone from Optimum call me a few weeks back to switch saying they could save me $$$ (which was probably true) and point blank said I really don't care how much you can save me, unless you guys carry the NFL network you don't have a chance in hell of getting me to go back to Cablevision.
Of course if the Giants play the way they did last year I wouldn't have to worry about it either way because I would have a broken television
The deal I got with Fios for all of the movie channels for 6 months and then the remaining 18 keeps me about $15 more than I was paying for the Silver package on CV so I can deal with it. I am sure that CV would have me back at a bigger discount than I had before but no NFLN, no dice.
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