“ didn’t say a minimum of 45Mbps,” Gierczynski said, “it just says ‘up to’.” What about the 45/45Mbps speed commitment?
“It wasn’t until 2004 when FiOS came on the scene.” “Nobody knew what FiOS was 20 years ago,” Gierczynski said. ” He said there never was any commitment to deploy FiOS across all of New Jersey because FiOS did not exist at the time of the original agreement. Verizon spokesman Lee Gierczynski said criticisms about the company’s performance in New Jersey are “ way off base. Now Verizon wants the state to approve a settlement that will redefine its commitment from 45/45Mbps to 4Mbps DSL or wireless 4G broadband. Verizon got the deregulation and tax breaks but much of the state is still waiting for the faster broadband it was promised. He wants New Jersey to conduct a thorough investigation of Verizon’s financial reporting and learn why the company has reneged on a broadband commitment that originally promised a minimum of 45/45Mbps high-speed broadband for 100% of the state by 2010 in return for rate deregulation and tax breaks. Kushnick has argued that Verizon has cooked the books, diverting funds that should have been spent on FiOS expansion into its more profitable wireless subsidiary Verizon Wireless instead. Northwest, central and southern New Jersey all lack solid broadband coverage.
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