Verizon Fios Installation

[caravaggiste]

So, I know that the system is set up in Jamaica Plain all down Centre and surrounding streets as well as in the Forest Hills Area. This morning, I was walking with my roommate to work and found Verizon with a massive barrage of trucks and equipment along Main St/Columbia, Mass Ave/MIT installing fiber optic lines. Going further up Mass Ave to Prospect as well. Did anyone else see this? I always said Cambridge would get it before Boston Proper. I still find it amazing that MIT - Harvard isn't linked by a massive fiber optic network....But anyway, installation in the Central/Kendall area is under way according to a Verizon rep outside one of the trucks on Columbia & Main St.

 

[statler]

^^Don't worry, MIT & Harvard have plenty of fiber into their campus. FiOS is just a consumer product.

 

[caravaggiste]

Well yeah, I guess I should have been clearer. Harvard & MIT should sponsor a Cambridge wide fiber optic program. Their endowments allow such a thing and their strive for knowledge and connection has always reflected well in the area. It's just a surprise there isn't a service connecting the two campuses and the bio tech industries in the area.

But anyway, FiOS is being installed. Anyone else know of any other places besides Central/Kendall and JP?

 

[czsz]

I don't know why, but every street corner of Cambridge seems to be getting dug up this week. This could be the reason.

 

[kennedy]

czsz, out of the blue, do you go to harvard?

 

[czsz]

Yeah, I'm in grad school there right now.