Originally Posted by
lsquare
There's also pricing pressure and no one is going to invest in building a network unless there was a way to not only earn it back, but make a profit. The difficult part is pricing it in a way that will ensure they will make a profit, but not so prohibitively expensive that no one can afford it.
Hence, my confusion over the choice of Staten Island vs. Manhattan. Perhaps the boards and landlords are a little too much to handle, or they were doing some extensive build-out work in NJ and included SI in that. My building has three providers (Spectrum/ex-TWC, RCN, and FiOS) with 3 different physical infrastructures. It took FiOS a long, long time to arrive, and the offers are not so compelling. Perhaps that will change, but I doubt it -- which is a similar story as other places.