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We literally had to move. Internet options are critical these days it's a necessity not a luxury anymore. I would do my best to avoid Pre-Wars because they typically don't offer more than 1 ISP and so you have no power to negotiate.
Old people are going to suffer. I'm hoping T-Mobile internet could work for my mother. Because Verizon is acting funky in her neighborhood...
Right now I have RCN and never been happier. FIOS is a failed experiment because it requires and relies on landlords too much.
Some people are just set in their ways. Besides if you've lived in NYC long as many of these old timers you have a service Verizon no longer offers; flat rate (untimed) service. That combined with what internet they need (DSL works just fine in most cases) so things just work out for them I suppose.
Whose fault is that
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I'm stuck with Spectrum for my internet and their speeds are atrocious for $79 a month but I just checked and apparently FIOS is now offered in my area so I may change when I get back home.
For TV I use YouTube TV on a Google Chromecast attached to my TV and it's only $64.99 a month with unlimited DVR storage. I love it.
Change it to Fios
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I want to but I suspect I'm going to have to talk to my landlord first.
As long as your building is wired for it you should not have an issue
I was with Spectrum when they were Time Warner, and lets just say I spent a lot of time at their center on Atlantic Avenue in Jamaica returning their boxes.
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"The man who sleeps on the floor, can never fall out of bed." -Martin Lawrence
As long as your building is wired for it you should not have an issue
I was with Spectrum when they were Time Warner, and lets just say I spent a lot of time at their center on Atlantic Avenue in Jamaica returning their boxes.
I live in a two family house that hasn't been rewired since it was built with my landlord downstairs.
That's why I suspect he'd have an issue with it. I can't tell you how many times I've had to contact Spectrum support or go to one of their stores at this point.
Verizon fios and wireless are their main offerings now. Copper Verizon service is going the way of the Dodo bird in NYC.
It's a technology well over a century old now. If Fios is available in your building, they are purposely ignoring your concerns hoping you'll change to fios or wireless. If Fios is not available in your building, they are also purposely ignoring your concerns hoping you go to their wireless or even to the competition, cable.
You can complain to the NYS PSC. That's about all they listen to nowadays anyway.
Few of my elderly neighbors have been without telephone service (landline) for over a month now. They've been given a load of flannel by Verizon and fobbed off with something called "Voice Link" service.
Spoke to one gentleman in lobby today who has been fighting with Verizon for well over a month now to get issue resolved, but they just don't want to hear. Apparently there is a cable messed up somewhere and Verizon can't be bothered to fix it anytime soon. He turned down offer of Voice Link wireless service because it doesn't provide internet, fax or anything else by basic wireless telephone, and even that last bit is spotty.
Flannel? In the summer? Flannel is for winter.
Tell your friends to call again and:
1. keep a log of every single person they talk to; ask for a last name or, failing that, an ID number.
2. emphasize that they're elderly; claim they need to be keeping in touch with doctors.
3. ask for a supervisor; Verizon will never escalate unless asked.
These people are still on a POTS (plain old telephone service) connection. This is now obsolete, and Verizon doesn't want to support it anymore. They're letting it degrade, and shunting the holdouts onto Fios.
I actually have Locast also and using SlingTV for my cable. My old cable bill was about $220 a month and was pushing north of that during sports season, so I had enough and said it's time for a change. Now I pay around $85.00 a month and that's with Locast as well (I do the $5.50 a month donation just because I think it's so awesome that the picture quality is soooo good and I want to see the founder succeed and expand this to people who can't afford anything - I rarely watch the regular channels since I've been donating, but on occasion, I see something that catches my attention on PBS or whatever), but yeah, I agree with you. I am surprised about AT&T though. I had them for a few wireless services and had to drop them because they always had towers down in my area. Switched to Verizon for my wireless needs and have stayed with them for over 10 years.
Stick a fork in it, it's done; Locast killed off by broadcast networks.
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Switched to Verizon for my wireless needs and have stayed with them for over 10 years.
