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FiOS Offers HD Six-Month Freebies

Telco, Taking Swipe At Old-Fashioned Cable, Proffers HD DVR, HD Home Media Player

By Linda Haugsted -- Multichannel News, 1/5/2009 9:06:00 AM

Verizon Communications Inc. is ringing in the new year with a new customer offer for potential FiOS subscribers with a strong HD component.

The telco has announced that customers who subscribe between now and Feb. 21. will get six months of free use of either a high-definition digital-video recorder or an HD home media DVR. The company notes that the offer will save a consumer between $95 and $119, depending on the DVR chosen.

The company noted that consumers are reevaluating how they spend their discretionary income in the current economy. A survey commissioned by Verizon, querying 1,026 adults, indicated the majority of respondents intend to spend more time at home watching television. 

Verizon is touting its HD home media DVR as an entertainment solution for these economic times that "old-fashioned cable can't match."

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  Verizon should also note that consumers who are already under contract with them have been screwed by these special offers.
  
  We signed up with Verizon last year and were promised a $200 American Express gift card. Waiting patiently as these things go, after four months the card still hadn't arrived.
  
  After being bounced around from office to office at Verizon they finally told us we had to call American Express. American Express had no record of us and said that many others had called about the same thing. Calling Verizon back, their position is that the promotion is over and we're out of luck. A letter to the complaint department has gone unanswered.

  
  

  
  Theresa W. Hanley - 1/6/2009 9:12:00 AM EST
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