On Tuesday 20 July 2004 2:11 pm, you wrote:
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> On Tuesday 20 July 2004 01:50 pm, Robert Snyder wrote:
> > Chad Perrin wrote:
> > > Steve wrote:
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> > >> According to Verizon they don't mean the Tampa area, only Tampa.
> > >> Bummer as I live in Clearwater.
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> > > I might have to move soon -- further into Tampa itself.
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> > According from what i heard with verizon... Not only tampa but
> > everyone inside Hillsboro county and according to local fiber techs
> > that I talk to who work in sarasota that after hillsboro they did
> > have un announced plans to start in Sarasota and Pinelllas county
> > and have them done by mid 2006
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> Too bad for us. Well until 2006, then we won't care...
>
> It will be interesting to see what RR will do with that kind of
> competition. The way I see it they will either have to writeoff
> competing in those areas where Verizon has presence, or get REALLY
> cheap.
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> The technology they use is only good for 9Mb, a bit shy of 15 or
> 30Mb. - --
> Steve
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> "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety
> deserve neither liberty nor safety."
> Benjamin Franklin
>
On the channel 8 local news last night, they were saying the New Tampa
area should have it up and running by Thanksgiving. I'm in Meadow
Pointe, and they just dug up my yard last week, laying fiber. I'm
hoping we'll be in that first wave. I wonder if they need any beta
sites?
Tom
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