Don't sign up with Verizon FIOS if you are doing it for their slick bait and switch marketing and their "insert Visa gift card amount" gift card. As a current 5 year customer, after signing up last year again I was promised a $120 gift card. Not exactly their highest one offered being that now they offer $400. Even though I have it in writing as confirmed with an agent online, their customer relations department (I had to report them to the BBB to make a complaint) still will not give me $120. Their customer relations department is 100% useless and a waste of corporate money. They may as well hire someone at minimum wage to regurgitate the same thing told from their customer service reps.
IF you do sign up, DO NOT sign a contract, at least can cancel when you want. Also, save yourself some money, if you only watch old HBO shows like me, just get HBO through amazon premium. If you watch current HBO, they will be offering HBO without cable and through your smart TV this year. Don't waste the $20 upgrade and taxes for FIOS.
I've since cut back $20/month and another $10/month discount I found from my employer. SO I will save about $360 by the time my contract is up. They were better off giving me $120 like I asked to begin with.
So, once the contract is up, I will go back to a competitor with no contract and as I will predict, FIOS will suddenly want me back as a valued customer for a better rate simply because they only value NEW customers. read more