Back To Verizon FiOS
At our townhouse we had Verizon FiOS Internet service. At the time the TV service wasn’t available in our area. This was about a year ago when FiOS was really new in the Richmond area. Once we moved to Chesterfield we lost the ability to have FiOS so we went back to Comcast. Lately we’ve seen a number of people in the neighborhood having FiOS installed.
Katie has been bugging me for months to get a home phone again. So once I looked into the prices I discovered that I could get TV, Internet, and Phone service from Verizon for a little bit cheaper than we were paying Comcast for just TV and Internet. Not to mention that the difference in Internet speeds is staggering.
Today was the day for the install. It took about 6-7 hours total. I would say a lot of time was spent just waiting for the activation process to happen.
Home phone is home phone. I really don’t have much I can say about that. When I pick up the phone, there’s a dial tone, so I’m happy. 
The Internet was what I remember it being. Instead of the crappy ActionTec modem/router, Verizon now uses a slimmer and Verizon branded modem/router. I did notice that by default it uses WEP security, which gave me trouble with my iPhone. Once I switched the security to WPA2 everything was good to go. For a quick speed test, I started downloading Xcode from Apple.com. The 1GB+ file was coming down at 1.2MB/sec. Certainly can’t complain with that performance.
The TV service is pretty nice. It sucks to learn a whole new set of channels but oh well. All I care about is 826, which is ESPN HD. 
The HD service is solid with roughly the same number of channels as Comcast. I will miss INHD as I actively watched two of their shows. The quality of the HD channels really doesn’t look any different to me. The standard definition does look a little better. Enough that even Katie noticed the difference. She actually asked if I was watching an HD channel, which I wasn’t. I wouldn’t say it looks that good but that was her initial reaction.
Overall, I like it so far. Price was the biggest factor for me and that was enough to make the switch.
I posted something a month or two ago about my switch over to FiOS as well. Just a heads-up that the price for a few months will seem higher. We’re probably on a pkg a little less (we didn’t get any HD stuff) but still the triple option. It seems like the monthly bill is something like $135… when the pkg price is I think $110 but then you throw in all the fees and then I think the activation costs distributed over a few months or something… there’s always a reason for all the fees
But my wife likes it… I’d be happy ditching our home phone and the TV myself
Yeah, you gotta love the taxes and junk you pay each month. Luckily, the deal I got online was no activation fee, a month of free service for both TV and Internet, HBO free for 3 months, and the Sports & Movies package free until 1/1/09. I can’t complain at all.
I would LOVE FIOS! I wish they had it in DOWNTOWN RICHMOND where the population is densely packed with internet-crazed myspace users!