Fios coming to my neighborhood (williamsville)?

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The last couple of weeks on my way to work I’ve noticed crews lining up equipment for running cable. After the storm I just assumed it was power related. Then a few days ago the spools if big orange conduit showed up and they started burying it. It looked just like the conduit AT&T used to run for our digital lines at my old job. Today on my way back from lunch I stopped and asked one of the guys what they were running, and he confirmed my suspicion. They’re running the conduit for fiber! :slight_smile: They’ve already T’d it off to run down the line that goes behind my street too.

They’re working on Red Oak near Clearfield right now. Crossing my fingers this is for Fios, but I can’t imagine any other reason why they’d be running fiber smack in the middle of a residential area.

For those of you that aren’t huge nerds and don’t know what Fios is…
http://www22.verizon.com/content/consumerfios/packages+and+prices/packages+and+prices.htm

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:tup: if they run it through all of amherst, like by UB north, then an even bigger one.

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Fios is the shizzle but im really interested in their TV

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hotness

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Yeah I have seen them running it along hte 290 too…its the only thing I could suspect they would be burying there…

definitly pumped

getting closer to getting rid of TW

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See, that I wouldn’t get very excited about because that just means it could still be years before they actually get into all the little neighborhoods. What I was surprised about was to see them right in the middle of a residential area, no where near any major roads.

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=180+red+oak,+williamsville,+ny,+14221&ie=UTF8&z=15&ll=42.998339,-78.746438&spn=0.015411,0.045362&om=1&iwloc=addr

That’s pretty much where they are digging.

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they did the same think in west seneca this summer in my nieghbor hood, It takes a while to get it going after they run the lines

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I seen some signs in west seneca just today on the front of peoples lawns saying fios was installed here, call verizon to order.

I live in west seneca on the other side of union, i called they told me 6 months or more to get it.

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Yes it’s FIOS, they’ve been running the line up and down the 290 since August.

IT will probably be next summer before they start officially rolling it out, and that’s assuming they stay on schedule :meh:

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my appartment complex is already wired up for fios. Is it possible to start getting the service yet?? They have been parking there sales reps in front of my comlpex advertising it.

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verizon fios availability

too bad I would never see this out here in the stix

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I was wondering what that was for.

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i was told our neighborhood could have it as early as spring.

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I knew I should have posted up sooner telling all…

I live by Red Oak and Cottonwood. I knew they were running it two weeks ago :frowning:

Sorry for keeping you guessing, living in the same neighborhood. But, don’t get all excited too soon…

It wont be up for a little while however, as the main relays havent reached the area. They want to be able to connect the area within 6-9 months depending on weather. But, we will be prepared when they do! So, thats good news :slight_smile:

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Broken dreams and promises. You know how many times they’ve pushed the date back? :cry:

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That’s Verizon’s SOP…

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Well, I’d rather see them push the timeframe back and make sure it’s ready to go before releasing it, as opposed to Time Warner that just makes changes when ever they feel like it constantly breaking stuff.

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As long as you are comfortable with that. Just so you know, we’re riding an almost 2 year “setback”. :meh: