Comments on: UPDATED: Verizon FiOS TV heavily targeting apartments, condos in O.C. and more

By: A glimpse into U-verse, FiOS availability in Orange County - Alt+Save with the Gadgetress - OCRegister.com

Wed, 17 Dec 2008 15:53:11 +0000

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Thu, 11 Dec 2008 01:19:03 +0000

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FiOS TV coming to Seal Beach - Alt+Save with the Gadgetress - OCRegister.com — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 23:01:00 +0000

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By: Gadgetress

Gadgetress — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 18:04:35 +0000

Stephen – I’m meeting with someone from FiOS on Friday.
Feel free to e-mail me more specifics about your situation. — Gadgetress

By: Stephen

Stephen — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:33:53 +0000

I tried Verizon FIOS and it is great—if you like spotty Internet service and a phone that only gives you a dial tone about 80% of the time (and an annoying high pich the rest of the time). Seriously, Verizon should be penalized for not testing and fixing their services before unleashing them on the public. Verizon should also inform customers that once your phone is switched to FIOS, they will NOT put it back on copper wire no matter how unreliable your FIOS service is! To give you an idea how bad Verizon FIOS is, I finally had enough, canceled my service and let them turn me over to collections. Screw good credit, I refuse to pay Verizon one dime. It’s too bad it came to that, but I’d rather have bad credit than pay Verizon for crappy service.

By: JohnB

JohnB — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 01:14:54 +0000

I’m stuck in AT&T land where they are using old copper lines to send slow data with no plans for any kind of speed-up. The whole U-Verse system is a joke, using old copper lines at DSL speeds to provide low quality TV and slow data.

Please Verizon, find way to offer FIOS in Costa Mesa!

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 19:45:10 +0000

Hey Dave,
Menifee is out near Canyon Lake.
I, like you, cannot get the Fios in Costa Mesa either, and my landlord is reaming me on my cable bill with Time/Warner.
I’m seriously considering going the satellite route.
Maybe that will eliminate the $45 a month charge I’m getting from the apartment managers. (maybe)
Next it will be a satellite dish user fee.

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 19:08:05 +0000

I don’t guess will be getting Verizon FiOS service in Laguna Niguel any time soon. Verizon can’t even figure out where we are. Try looking up a Laguna Niguel address at their web site: http://www.verizon.com/fiostv They will offer several alternative addresses in Menifee, CA, whereever that is. I’ve complained to them several times, but they don’t seem to care enough to get it fixed.

By: How to get cheaper cable TV from Time Warner Cable - Alt+Save with the Gadgetress - OCRegister.com

Tue, 21 Oct 2008 17:43:42 +0000

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By: ed simon says

ed simon says — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 00:45:18 +0000

Ed Simom says “HEY YOU KIDS GET OFF MY LAWN!”

By: Gadgetress

Gadgetress — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 00:31:18 +0000

Steve — Something definitely doesn’t sound right. By law, you can now opt for satellite and, if your landlord lets them in, Verizon FiOS (if you’re in Verizon territory). That $200 bill may be right but an extra $45 to your landlord sounds excessive. Send me the details about your landlord and cable bill and I’ll look into — thegadgetress@ocregister.com

By: Steve

Steve — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 00:00:49 +0000

I’m confused here.
I live in an apartment in Orange County and the management charges every resident $45 per month to access Time/Warner cable.
This is in ADDITION to the monthly bill I receive from them. (Time /Warner)
Am I missing something here????
I also have the phone, internet and tv bundle, and I’m paying nearly $200 a month with only 1 premium channel, HBO.
Something ain’t right!

By: Scottie

Scottie — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 09:08:56 +0000

Wow Crystal! Their customer service is excellent!!!?? So, how long have you been working for Verizon? Are you in their Marketing department?

By: Crystal

Crystal — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 04:46:02 +0000

I’ve had the FIOS for almost a year and I love it…we dont pay $200 we pay about $130 a month which was a hundred lower than charter. The customer service is excellent and the incentive to join was great. I was leary of other companies because they couldnt guarantee a price for more than a year and that wasn’t good enough for me. My whole extended family now has Verizon and we are all happy.

By: Ed Simon

Ed Simon — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 04:44:03 +0000

WOW! What is the FIOS deal? …Having a antenna on my roof for the pass 45 years had made TV service nice and free for me. Internet? Who needs it! There is nothing I can’t find in an Encyclopida that I can learn about. And Prono’s, come on people. That is what a VCR is for.

By: gareeyph

gareeyph — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 01:32:00 +0000

The FIOS Deal is very expensive. They sell you the triple-phone,internet and cable for $109 a month on a one or two year program, but by the time that they supply each tv witha mandatory box and and you add on a premium channel or two, it costs approximately $200 a month. Time Warner is a much better deal. After eight months of Verizon I’m going back to Time Warner