NY AG Wants Verizon, Lagging Upgrades Investigated by State PSC New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has written to the New York Public Service Commission, urging the agency to investigate Verizon and examine how deregulating the telecom giant has impacted state consumers and businesses. Verizon's refusal to upgrade aging DSL lines or expand FiOS has been a touchy subject of late, after a New York City study found the company failed utterly to live up to FiOS deployment promises in New York City.

Schneiderman's letter (pdf) urges the PSC's investigation to explore "whether there is adequate competition for broadband service throughout the various regions of New York State, and whether there are any areas that are still essentially cable monopolies." The letter also urges the PSC to examine "whether telecommunications companies are making honest representations about infrastructure build-out," and "to fully understand the impact of deregulation on consumers and businesses." While New York City's stunted FiOS deployment gets most of the attention, New York State residents in Binghamton, Buffalo, Albany, Syracuse and many more rural markets have also been left on aging infrastructure that Verizon's trying to walk away from to focus on more profitable wireless service. The CWA has been highlighting these issues as the two sides hammer out a new labor contract. The CWA wants to make hay from Verizon's decision to largely give up on landlines, Schneiderman likely wants to win favor with the unions by pushing for an investigation that will likely never seriously happen, and Verizon continues to run as quickly as it can away from the fixed-line broadband business. The CWA wants to make hay from Verizon's decision to largely give up on landlines, Schneiderman likely wants to win favor with the unions by pushing for an investigation that will likely never seriously happen, and Verizon continues to run as quickly as it can away from the fixed-line broadband business.







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karlmarx

join:2006-09-18

Moscow, ID 6 recommendations karlmarx Member It never fails to amaze me Verizon LIES. Period. It's written in their damn charter! Verizon, as a person, has an obligation to maximize shareholder return. Period. NOTHING about providing good service or good value is written. MAXIMIZE profit. Time and time again, it's pretty much corporate law that lying increases profit. Ergo, Verizon will LIE, every...single...chance...it gets. Period. Verizon does NOT EXIST to service customers, it exists SOLELY to maximize return to shareholders. Having said that, we gave corporations the same rights as people, why are we stupid to think they won't LIE to get the best returns. Verizon KNEW when they got the tax breaks, they would never meet the requirements. Verizon KNEW they would get a penalty. Guess what, the penalty is LESS than the profit, so what are you expecting them to do?

There is only 1 solution to this problem. Make the EXECUTIVES personally responsible for failing to meet promises, with the threat of REAL JAIL TIME and loss of ALL THEIR ILL GOTTEN ASSETS. If the executives (or former executives) make a promise, hold them to it, just like you would hold an individual, and make the penalties FAR WORSE than the simple 'fine' that Verizon just considers 'the cost of doing business'. chrismitt

join:2012-07-09

Orange, CA 5 recommendations chrismitt Member Good Fine the hell out of them force them to upgrade thos on dsl or worse over priced highly capped wireless IluvMoney (banned)

join:2015-05-04

MiddleClass 5 recommendations IluvMoney (banned) Member Karl summed up the situation very well The CWA wants to make hay from Verizon's decision to largely give up on landlines, Schneiderman likely wants to win favor with the unions by pushing for an investigation that will likely never seriously happen, and Verizon continues to run as quickly as it can away from the fixed-line broadband business. Karl summed up the situation very well:It is all just political hot air, where the state and Verizon will do nothing. The AG is just running a PR game.

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1 edit 3 recommendations Economist Premium Member Failed to live up to promises? Shocking

»Did Verizon Scam Pennsylvania?

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»www.teletruth.org/docs/L ··· 2002.pdf Shocking. Whether under the name Verizon, or BA, they have been scamming everyone for decades. Just ask PA which has been waiting more than 20 years for their widely available synchronous 45Mb service promised by BA in exchange in $2B in breaks (according to an economic analysis by Dr. Lee Selywn of Sloan/MIT) during testimony over the issue.