Wondering if Verizon’s FiOS is available in your area? Look no further than the FiOS wiki. If you click on the states listed you’ll see a detailed accounting of counties or townships where the Verizon service is available. Of course, I live in Upper Merion Pennsylvania and FiOS isn’t actually in my neighborhood, but it is around the corner. Any day now?
(Thanks to Jim and Beth for the photo)
Of course, what the Wiki won’t tell you is specific neighborhoods and service levels. My county is covered, yet my MDU has neither data nor video. :( Hurry, VZ, hurry!
Fios has been available in many neighborhoods here in Washington since 2006, yet it’s not listed there. So this is hardly a comprehensive list…
That, of course, is the joy of a wiki. There’s no guarantee that it’s accurate, but you can always add info yourself when something’s missing.
Yes, but I don’t really have detailed (or up to date) information on where it is and isn’t available here (I just know some of my friends can get it and I can’t), nor do I really have the time to dig it up. I was going there hoping to be enlightened, not to do the enlightening ;-)
Yeah, me three! I’m not building Verizon’s Wiki for them. Though I did submit my name to be notified when FiOS service is available in my ‘hood… and am doubtful I’ll get any sort of an email. They’ll probably blast the area with postcards or something. If they dilly dally too long, I may just resort to AirCard for all Internet and I’ve been threatening Melissa to cancel pay TV since we have so many other options.
Fair enough. Still there are few places with any information on FiOS availability. At least this is a start. Oh, and I don’t think it comes directly from Verizon. I believe it was started by an average citizen. Someone who is clearly more motivated than we three. ;)
Dave- could you live without ESPN?
OK, if it’s totally community-based I’ll cut them a LOT of slack. In that case, they’re providing a useful service and maybe we can all contribute. But we need tables or something to indicate neighborhoods and such. And a free month of service for our troubles. ;)
I could probably live without ESPN, but I doubt Melissa could live without CNN. In the old days, I only subscribed to cable during college football season though…
I saw a contractor running fiber in front of our development just yesterday! w00t! Now the question is: how long between that and the actual availability?
Interesting. There were Verizon guys setting up Fios in my building in Sunnyvale two months ago (I chatted with them), but Verizon insists there’s no Fios at my address. Sunnyvale also is not listed on that wiki page. Thanks for the link!
I’ve been religiously checking the Verizon Virginia page each month, since they publish a monthly list of streets and areas it’s going in. I don’t know if the same information is available for all states but it’s probably the best bet you have to see where it is going and how long it will take to get to you.
VA Page: http://www22.verizon.com/about/community/va/
FTTP Deployment Locations for April (Warning: PDF): http://www22.verizon.com/about/community/va/files/VAFTTPApr08.pdf
Interesting site. Would love to see more detail.
It is very obvious when Fios is being installed. My front yard just got dug up about a month ago. 10 guys in holes.
A friend of mine who lived around the corner was annoyed that I had FIOS installed and they hadn’t even notified him it was available. He had been on the FIOS site for 6 months asking to be notified when it was available. He never was.
Well, my friend kept putting in his cell phone number into the website look up.
D’oy… Not a good idea.
If you’re checking for FIOS or other services don’t use your cell phone number. Look up the Verizon land line number of someone you know and use that to check.
I love FIOS because of the higher upload allocation. I wasn’t happy that they took my land line phone off cooper and put it on the fiber. It took a month but I had them switch it back. Much better.
Bill
John, I swapped ‘va’ for ‘md’ and found my page – Nice! However, comparatively, the construction schedule looks pretty light. Maybe they’re really big streets.
http://www22.verizon.com/about/community/md/files/MonCoApr08.pdf
Bill why do you prefer copper landline over FiOS? Do you not like the quality of VOIP?
Well, I don’t believe what they installed to replace the copper was true VOIP but in theory it should have been better. Unfortunately, the quality wasn’t up to par and when I questioned it they arrived with a long list of incompatible phones. I wasn’t about to change out any of my phones that worked previously, including my all-in-one printer/fax that didn’t work at all over the fiber. Some phones had an annoying echo. I’ve heard they force people to switch now so make sure all your phones work after your install.
It was a full day of install and they include a battery pack which has 8-12 hours of backup power. So unlike copper lines, if you lose power you’ll eventually lose your phone.
Ultimately, I couldn’t be happier. I now have 5 MB upload where road runner had 80% of my bandwidth going to downloads.
I’m not sure if links are allowed but you could search on “billp fios speed test” to read more about my install experience.
For about the same price Road Runner was 5/1 MB and I now have 20/5 MB under FIOS.
Bill
I am interested in interent service not TV this wiki is for TV so it is misleading!
I believe they have FIOS Internet everywhere that they have FIOS TV (though not the other way around), so it may not be totally useless.
LOL, Verizon pwn’d the domain so now it’s nothing. Nice.