{"id":13952,"date":"2013-12-05T04:14:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-05T04:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/articles\/victory-on-fire-island\/"},"modified":"2013-12-05T04:14:00","modified_gmt":"2013-12-05T04:14:00","slug":"victoria-en-la-isla-del-fuego","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/es\/articles\/victory-on-fire-island\/","title":{"rendered":"Victoria en la Isla del Fuego"},"template":"","class_list":["post-13952","article","type-article","status-publish","hentry","article_type-blog-post"],"acf":{"details":{"summary":"Bowing the pressure from public interest groups, local elected officials, and regulators in Washington and Albany, Verizon just announced that they will build fiber optic service to affected Fire Island residents.","featured_image":null,"article_type":1103,"authors":["{\"site_id\":\"1\",\"post_type\":\"person\",\"post_id\":9027}"],"related_issues":[134,2065],"related_work":false,"location":null},"sidebar":{"helper_enable_sidebar":false,"helper_media_contact":{"heading":"Media Contact","manually_enter_person":false,"person":null,"name":"","role":"","phone":"","email":""},"helper_links_downloads":{"heading":"Links & Downloads","links":null}},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":null,"component_wysiwyg":{"content":"<p>We've been following the developments in Fire Island, New York, for months. Superstorm Sandy destroyed much of the telecommunications infrastructure there, and Verizon, the local telephone operator chose not to rebuild its land-line service in much of the area. Instead, the company shifted 500 Fire Islanders over to an inferior product called Voice Link.<\/p><p>Customers didn't have a choice -- they were assigned a product that lacked many basic features -- Voice Link cannot receive collect calls in case a friend is in need; it is incompatible with heart monitors that seniors rely on; small businesses cannot use it process credit cards or faxes. Yet it cost about the same as traditional phone service!<\/p><p><div>We are hard at work promoting quality, affordable connectivity for all Americans. We've said all along that we cannot let firms like Verizon foist substandard service on consumers, least of all disaster victims. Common Cause\/New York held a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/es\/democracy-wire\/verizon-under-fire-on-fire-island.html\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ayuntamiento<\/a> where residents voiced their frustration with the insufficient service, \"No one asked us to join this grand experiment,\" said one person in attendance.<\/div><\/p><p><div><\/div><\/p><p><div>Cientos de personas m\u00e1s expresaron su descontento con los comentarios en el <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/bruce-kushnick\/fire-island-erupts-over-v_b_3531584.html?\" target=\"_blank\">Comisi\u00f3n de Servicio P\u00fablico de Nueva York<\/a>Los aliados del inter\u00e9s p\u00fablico Public Knowledge y AARP se manifestaron en contra de que Verizon traslade unilateralmente a sus clientes al servicio inferior Voice Link.<\/div><\/p><p><div><\/div><\/p><p><div>Verizon, que ha cedido ante la presi\u00f3n de los grupos de inter\u00e9s p\u00fablico, los funcionarios electos locales y los reguladores de Washington y Albany, ha... <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsday.com\/long-island\/towns\/verizon-offers-alternative-to-voice-link-on-fire-island-1.6046505\" target=\"_blank\">Reci\u00e9n anunciado<\/a> que construir\u00e1n un servicio de fibra \u00f3ptica para los residentes afectados de Fire Island. Voice Link ser\u00e1 una opci\u00f3n para los clientes que lo elijan.<\/div><\/p><p><div><\/div><\/p><p><div>Verizon did the right thing here, but only after advocates and policymakers held their feet to the fire. Consumer protection and universal service are common sense policies, and shouldn't require mobilizing cadres of grassroots activists and politicians applying thumbscrews.<\/div><\/p><p><div><\/div><\/p><p><div>Es por eso que necesitamos un liderazgo de inter\u00e9s p\u00fablico en la FCC y fuertes medidas de protecci\u00f3n al consumidor por parte de nuestros legisladores.<\/div><\/p><p><div><\/div><\/p><p><div>Seguir <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/coppsm\">@coppsm <\/a>y <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/ttoboyle\">@ttoboyle<\/a> para conocer las \u00faltimas novedades de la Iniciativa de Reforma de los Medios y la Democracia.<\/div><\/p>"}}]},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.6 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Victory on Fire Island - Common Cause<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/es\/articulos-2\/victoria-en-la-isla-del-fuego\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_MX\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Victory on Fire Island\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/es\/articulos-2\/victoria-en-la-isla-del-fuego\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Common Cause\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CommonCause\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/CC-Share-Graphic-Main9.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"630\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@CommonCause\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/articles\/victory-on-fire-island\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/articles\/victory-on-fire-island\/\",\"name\":\"Victory on Fire Island - 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