Verizon Refused NYC FiOS Installs Unless It Got Exclusivity Last week New York City took aim at Verizon, a citywide audit claiming that the telco failed to live up to the company's 2008 franchise agreement with the city. Verizon likely only wired about half of the city or so with FiOS, despite strongly insisting at the time that the deployment would reach the entire city.

quote: "[T]wo of the interviewees’ statements supported the first property manager’s statement that Verizon was not completing NSIs because they wanted exclusive agreements for certain buildings before completion of the NSI," according to the audit report. "For example, one property manager from a well-known firm complained that Verizon would not complete the NSI at a building on Sutton Place unless 100 percent of the apartment dwellers committed to Verizon FiOS. This property manager also said only two of the eleven multiple dwelling properties he managed had Verizon FiOS and that installations took anywhere from six months to two years." That would violate a 2007 FCC rule that broadband providers and landlords can't strike exclusive agreements, a rule cable operators sued to overturn but failed. Verizon, for its part, says the violations of this rule are the result of a "miscommunication" between itself and its sales agents. The city also complained that Verizon was blocking competitor access to key city infrastructure, a practice those of us familiar with past ILEC/CLEC disputes remember quite well.Analysis of the city's audit now also indicates another reason for coverage gaps in the city. Verizon was refusing to wire some buildings if the landlords didn't agree to 100% exclusivity for Verizon FiOS That would violate a 2007 FCC rule that broadband providers and landlords can't strike exclusive agreements, a rule cable operators sued to overturn but failed. Verizon, for its part, says the violations of this rule are the result of a "miscommunication" between itself and its sales agents.







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Detroit, MI 3 recommendations Cthen Premium Member Get it writing? Are any of these cities or states getting any of this in writing? If so, then stop beating around the bush and take em to court. If not, then the cities and states are morons for taking Verizon's (or any business of the like) word for it.