Ken Savage Making IT in Massachusetts

Verizon FiOS Is Available In Massachusetts

FiOS is currently available for the state of Massachusetts. There are several areas in the state where Verizon FiOS internet service is currently available. We have provided you with a list of every single place in the Massachusetts state where FiOS is currently available as of this date:

Acton Andover Bedford Belmont Boxford Burlington Canton Dedham Georgetown Hamilton Holliston Hopkinton

Lakeville Lexington Littleton Lynnfield Marlboro Medway Middleboro Natick Newton Nobscott North Reading Reading

Sherborn Southborough Sudbury Tewksbury Topsfield Wakefield Wellesley Wenham West Newbury Westboro Westwood Winchester Woburn

Verizon’s FIOS will carry not only more than 50Mbps Internet access to the home, it will also handle entertainment channels quite nicely. Far cry from plain old telephone service (POTS). So Verizon’s intent is not to deliver high performance POTS, it is to deliver telephone, CATV, and high speed Internet. Also cool.

As a competitive entertainment and telecommunications project, we look forward to more creative and useful ideas coming from all telecom companies. I personally do not care if my entertainment comes from Comcast, DirecTV, SBC, Verizon, or Time Warner – I simply want the most advanced entertainment and communications available. I do not care if it is over fiber, copper, or through the air. I just want 450 TV channels, Internet that provides whatever content I want with no delay, and an effective way to communicate with any telephone or presence device to any point in the world.

However I live in a very technically advanced part of the United States, have not suffered a catastrophic natural disaster, and am not at the mercy of a single telecom provider.
Back to the gulf coast and Morris Point. You need to deliver high performance communications to every addressable home and business in the area. You need to do it fast. You need to do it under a reasonable budget. Do you buy telephone switches, copper, and dig up the streets for either conduits and manholes, or plant telephone poles every 100ft? Or do you take advantage of high performance wireless technologies that are only restricted by the end user having electricity and the potential for a line of sight to a wireless transmitter?

Let’s not waste time on E911 issues – those are solved. Near 0% of homes in the US are without at least one mobile phone, with GPS, that is available at a moments notice if there is an emergency. Regardless if the mobile phone is using packet or CDMA, the GPS device still pinpoints you within about 1 meter. Also, and in particular with wireless, batteries are an inherent part of the end user device – or a UPS can easily be installed if E911 services are really essential to those in the country side. A backhoe, car accident (whacking a pole), or any one of a thousand other variables can work to bring down a POTS line as easily as a wireless connection.

Let’s not waste time on “business toll quality” issues. Those are solved. Sometime check your long distance or international call setup time on Skype versus a toll call. Let’s not waste time on any issues other than delivering telecom and entertainment services to end users – wherever they may be.

Recovery time from a natural or man made disaster is now based on restoring an antenna, splicing a cable feeding an antenna, and aligning the antennas. Your WiFi Internet connection feeding a laptop or WiFi phone does not need cable or line-of-sight alignment, so once the antenna is restored you are online. This is calculated in days, rather than months. Remember the stories following Katrina of young people driving vans down to the gulf, setting up a portable generator, linking a wireless bridge to a “friendly” ISP, and then providing email and VoIP access to neighborhoods cut off from the world? If a 19 year old high school grad with a portable generator can get global communications installed within hours after a natural disaster, then shouldn’t we at least consider this model for disaster response, if not a permanent solution?

The big guys do not like this discussion. It is hard to give up a monopoly. It is hard to accept the possibility that in 5 years a telephone number will only be a reference of convenience as the world turns to presence indicators. It is hard to accept the automobile took the place of horses and carriage, or the airplane took the place of trains and cruise ships for long distance travel. But it happened, and we are all better for the change.

As a society we need to prepare ourselves for the upcoming quantum shift in technology-enabled communications and entertainment. As a business we need to keep a close eye on the first movers and be prepared to move ahead, either through R&D or M&A.

For Morris Point and the Gulf Coast? Sure, feel free to string fiber on the long distance side of the network (assuming your fiber is not already in place – that might be an astonishing revelation). Let’s forget this final mile copper infrastructure nonsense. Let’s aggressively exploit existing and emerging wireless technologies and meet the needs of community and business. Really.

John Savageau is a managing director at CRG-West, responsible for managing operations and architecture for several of the largest telecommunications interconnect facilities in the US, including One Wilshire in Los Angeles.

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