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This was one of the first places Verizon ran fiber to the buildings, even before it was called FiOS off the north Bothell switch.

Since Frontier took over the residential areas for several miles have a reputation of poor fios service EXTREMELY bandwidth curtailed with regular afternoon slowdowns, making Comcast services very competive.

NOW Comcast is aggressively building out in the surrounding bio-tech centered business parks because Frontier can't meet the needs 8 blocks from the switch.

The point being you can be passed by older fiber that only serve a low grade product. SO FTTx and the current plant conditions really need to be considered in the PASSED vs SERVED equation This was one of the first places Verizon ran fiber to the buildings, even before it was called FiOS off the north Bothell switch.Since Frontier took over the residential areas for several miles have a reputation of poor fios service EXTREMELY bandwidth curtailed with regular afternoon slowdowns, making Comcast services very competive.NOW Comcast is aggressively building out in the surrounding bio-tech centered business parks because Frontier can't meet the needs 8 blocks from the switch.The point being you can be passed by older fiber that only serve a low grade product. SO FTTx and the current plant conditions really need to be considered in the PASSED vs SERVED equation