Thanks.
To clarify, I wasn’t looking to get into that business. Just that TMHI is kind of kicking our butt lately. VZHI less so. But someone who got a new VZ phone was telling me if he got their super expensive UWB phone plan and the Plus home internet plan, Verizon would send a “professional installer”, which surprised me. Especially in a rural area. From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of Darin Steffl Sent: Thursday, February 6, 2025 10:40 AM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Verizon 5G Home Internet installers? Contractors only. I'm sure they have two or three master contractors and pay a fixed rate. On Thu, Feb 6, 2025, 9:32 AM Ken Hohhof <khoh...@kwom.com <mailto:khoh...@kwom.com> > wrote: Verizon says for their 5G Home Internet Plus (“up to” 300 Mbps and whole home WiFi) they will send an installer to determine if you need the mesh extender and determine where to put it. Anybody know who they are sending to do this? Cell carriers have stores and towers but they try really really hard not to have any field techs or installers like the old landline phone companies. Are they contracting this out, are they actually hiring people and sending them out in Verizon trucks? It’s not like they can use their FiOS workforce since most of their cellular footprint is in non FiOS areas and they aren’t even the landline phone company. I remember Verizon’s previous attempt at FWA with the “cantennas”, I think it was called HomeFusion. The main reason it fizzled seemed to be they didn’t want to send an installer to every customer. My impression is that cellcos will spend any amount of money on equipment and spectrum but would prefer to spend zero on labor. -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com <mailto:AF@af.afmug.com> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
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