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Shadman Zafar, CIO, Verizon Telecom

Summary: Shadman Zafar, CIO of Verizon Telecom talks to ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das about the company’s promise to deliver the Internet to television with its new Fios platform. The service will include social media widgets like Facebook and Twitter. Zafar describes the company’s approach to innovating in an economic downturn and where he stands on the net neutrality debate in Washington.

Topics: CXO, Browser, Networking, Telcos, Verizon

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  • RE: Shadman Zafar, CIO, Verizon Telecom

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      • RE: Shadman Zafar, CIO, Verizon Telecom

        I moved recently, leaving behind spotty 3mbps DSL for 15mbps cable internet. I?m only a few miles down the road, but telecommunications laws being what they are, that?s all it took to get some decent Internet service. Even 15mbps is slow by international standards, but out here in the sticks, I?m happy.
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        However, a variety of circumstances led me to try to reactivate the DSL service at my old house, the foremost of which was my inability to sell it in the long, slow recovery from that little recession that nailed all of us.
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        Why not use it as an office and deduct a big chunk of the mortgage, right? Stick my
        Linux Love
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        relatives up there and make sure they had something that could be loosely called broadband, let my
        Linux Love
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        older kids and their friends hang out there and still be able to access Facebook, whatever. You get
        Linux Love
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        the idea. We?re a family of geeks that doesn?t consider a house (even one out in the country) usable
        Linux Love
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        So since I?d already had DSL there for 3 years, you?d think it would be pretty simple to just turn it
        Linux Love
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        back on, right? Apparently not. Attempts to order the service online with Verizon yielded errors
        Linux Love
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      • RE: Shadman Zafar, CIO, Verizon Telecom

        about someone who already had internet and phone service there. Squatters? Nope, I?d been there
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      • RE: Shadman Zafar, CIO, Verizon Telecom

        just the day before. And it was my house. And I?d already canceled all service there months before.
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      • RE: Shadman Zafar, CIO, Verizon Telecom

        So I called, gave up my $5 discount for ordering online, and had service ready to be installed early
        Linux Love
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      • RE: Shadman Zafar, CIO, Verizon Telecom

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      • RE: Shadman Zafar, CIO, Verizon Telecom

        Another half an hour determined that my local Verizon office had to activate the line. I would have expected that to be part of the installation, but what do I know about telecom?<br><br>@VerizonSupport on Twitter responded to my angry Tweets with offers of help. Of course Id follow them and send them a direct message with my issues! This, however, was not the panacea for which I was hoping.<br><br>After I called tech support again and dug through the menus to find someone unscripted who could help me without transferring me across continents I found out that tech support had canceled my original order. They apparently werent going to tell me. Maybe they figured that Id just eventually give up on this silly Internet trend.<br><br>But not to worry! My friendly tech went ahead and placed the order again for me. If I could just send back the modem they had already sent, they could get another one to me for my new order. It would only be another few days for the install. For<a href="http://ipadbagblog.com/"><font color="light&height"> ipad bag blog</font></a> of best <a href="http://www.sutudeg.org/"><font color="light&height">sutudeg community</font></a> the modern <a href="http://wposfv.com/"><font color="light&amp;height">education news</font></a> and country sure.
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    • RE: Shadman Zafar, CIO, Verizon Telecom

      @edward polling I'm afraid that even had Windows Mobile gone open source, there probably wouldn't have been that many OSS developers that would have jumped on board. And I believe that the state of MS's coding might simply have embarrassed it rather than helping.
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  • RE: Shadman Zafar, CIO, Verizon Telecom

    without at least some sort of broadband.
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