I currently pay $200.00 a month for a digital package with HBO, one DVR, an HD box, High-speed internet, and digital voice. When I lived in Florida, I had the same three services through Bright House Networks and paid them $110.00 a month. It is absolutely disgusting what has been allowed to happen here in Maryland. Comcast is a monopoly in Frederick county, and you can blame our county and city government for that, and for the fact we may have missed our chance to get Fios. I honestly can’t wait until I can move out of this area.

My friend’s son has FIOS and I know of others that have it too. I’ve read someone’s post on here that the quality of FIOS is just about the same. I beg the different. I have Comcast and I can tell you that FIOS quality is so much better. My HD on Comcast doesn’t look no better than regular TV on Comcast and it’s not my TV because my TV is a brand new Sony. Very good TV set and that’s what my son has also. I can’t believe the picture quality that he has. The same individual reported that Comcast has more HD. NOT. He has more HD than I do and I have all the channel line up and he’s paying cheaper than I am. With Comcast the HD freezes all the time. Not once and a while but all the time so I have to turn the channel to the regular TV. All I have is Comcast TV and my bill is $158 per month. He has TV, internet, phone and cell and his bill is $186 per month because he said he upgraded his internet services.

Now the strangest thing is that in my neighborhood all the homes are wired for FIOS phone, internet and TV. And FIOS internet and phone is available so I don’t understand why we cannot have FIOS TV. I think it’s time for Comcast to have a little competition. As for customer service I called and asked for a HD/DVR box for another TV that I am getting. The guy on the phone told me that they are out of those boxes. WHAT!!!! You should have more of these boxes because this is what TVs are equipped for these days. Also, the person on the other end didn’t particular wanted to help me. He was in a hurry to get me off the phone. Bad customer service. The girl on the TV, of course , is an actress. They are not that friendly. So then he asked me to call back in a couple of weeks because they have some on order. Well, I waited one day called back and talked to a different person and was told that I can just go pick up one at one of their locations. Wow, that order came in pretty fast.

I live in an all adult community and we are a separate entity because the post office recognizes our area with a separate name. We are not on the map. So I don’t understand why our little city can’t get FIOS. Oh and the one last myth. I had a special deal with my INTERNET SERVICE for two years and when the two years was up it went up $10. That’s it. A lot of my neighbors had Comcast TV and after the special was up it went up twice as much as what they were paying. Now being in an adult community those that are retired could not afford that. And when they called they received rude service so they hung up and went with satellite. It was really funny because you saw the truck come in and one after the other homes satellite was installed. I still work so I could afford the extra charge but it’s really ridiculous.

It’s hard to interpret who is likely to get FIOS service based on factors like size and age of neighborhood. For example, I live in northern Montgomery County in a 15-year-old, 200-house subdivision off to itself within the Agricultural Reserve, yet we were among the first to get FIOS service in the area.