Everyone forgets, it's Verizon's Copper and Fiber!
The bottom line here is Verizon laid the Copper, and they are laying the Fiber. It's easy for people to say, I want to keep the Copper, but it's connected to Verizon equipment and like gwion said, it's old technology. Fiber needs new equipment, and the old equipment that supported Copper has to go. Time marches on, old technology is replaced by new, and we just have to adjust.
