Cablevision CEO a Verizon FiOS Customer?

Keri_Love writes "Cablevision and Verizon are in the middle of heated battle trying to sign up customers for the coveted 'triple play': it's fiber-to-the-premises vs. cable for broadband, television, and phone. Cablevision is slinging lines like 'We're not afraid of your fiber!' Tech blogger Mike Murray discloses evidence that Cablevision's CEO may be enjoying FiOS at home. He writes: 'Click the picture to the right showing a Verizon FiOS can and drop directly above Cablevision's CEO Chuck Dolan's Oyster Bay, Long Island mailbox.' He's not scared! He's a customer!"

he'd be an idiot...

[seanadams.com]

NOT to evaluate the competitor's product. What's the point of this story?

Redundant connections

[maxrate]

I run my own ISP - I supply high-speed to my residence via my own service AND the cable company. I like the redundancy. Yes - my ISP can have problems too (very rare, but I'm the first to admit it can happen)! I also like to keep an eye on the 'competitions' performance. A lot can be done with DOCSIS 3.0 over cable. As long as your connection is consistenly fast and reliable (and you're happy) who cares if it's fiber or not? I'm around fibre connections all day while at work (long-haul to other ISPs) I suppose I'm used to it, where many are not. Other than the connection being fibre, at the end of the day it's pretty much all the same as long as your are happy with your connection. As time moves on and things get upgraded, I have no doubt that fibre to the home will be the way everyone will/should connect in the coming years.

Re:give him credit

[xSauronx]

Seriously. I worked for a Wireless ISP in Kansas that is in the midst of expansion and acquistion and the President only *recently* got service from his own company, and was until then using that of the competition, because we hadn't been able to negotiate a deal for tower space to hang our own equipment in his area, and the nearest area from which his service area is now bridged (Town 1 is a service area with the T1, and has a 5 mile wireless bridge to Town 2, which is quite small, and the home of the president of the company)

He is, however, much happier with his own service. The competition has oversold their bandwidth and was quite slow, with lousy response times.