said by Pathfinder:If you stop by the FIOS forum you would see that it is by no means a set policy. Some keep it and others don't.
Besides, it is Verizon's copper and to expect them to maintain 2 separate different plants to your house so you could decide which to use is ridiculous.
If they do leave the copper, customers should be told that NO maintenance will be performed and all service delivered over it is best effort.
That's the thing... People who get FIOS are essentially locked into using Verizon at that point... So saying "Choose another provider" isn't really an option in some cases because once you have the fibre, you don't have another choice but Verizon.
