July 9, 2007
Verizon FiOS Installation Cuts Off Copper Lines
Warning if you are getting Verizon's new FiOS service: Verizon installers are removing you're homes copper connections. An AP article explains:
Verizon's installer — without warning, Powderly says — removed the copper wires that used to carry his phone calls. For most of the world, copper still links homes and businesses, as it has for a century.Verizon's new high-bandwidth fiber lines are fully capable of carrying not only calls but also Internet data and television with room to grow. But once the copper is pulled, it's difficult to switch back to the traditional phone system or less expensive Digital Subscriber Line service. And Verizon is not required, in most instances, to lease fiber to rival phone companies, as it is with the copper infrastructure.
Verizon is up to their old tricks again. So just beware if you are getting FiOS, you're pretty much permanently switching to Verizon.
First they sue Vonage to the point where my stock is worth less than my Charmin© - and now this!
Clearly Verizon's parents were unmarried.
My words were spun by the Associated Press. I knew the wire was going to be cut, and I was not concerned.
I cannot believe the writer would misquote a fellow journalist.
Here's my story:
http://libiz.blogspot.com/2007/07/associated-press-used-me-dammit.html
Posted by: Henry Powderly at July 9, 2007 2:38 PMFYI -
If you specifically request in your order (and you stay on top of the verizon tech when they come to your house) that they keep the copper wire, they usually will. I also told them that my alarm guy needed us to keep a copper phone line for our alarm system to work, and the verizon CS agent told me that they consider that a valid reason to keep copper. (this was as of June '06, in Long Island, NY).
So now we have FIOS for internet but good old fashioned copper for voice.
