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Re: Don't think this dog will hunt...
said by fiberguy  :Verizon is going to have a hard time pushing this one. ... Further, I think that they are going to have some hard, VERY HARD, regulatory hurdles to get through when people finally wake up and fight back. VZ has been careful to roll out FiOS in such a way they don't piss (many) people off, including constituents and politicians. This will cause the anti-remove-copper-group to have little power. There may be a few tiny skirmishes, but they'll have less impact than the copper thieves unless the police start catching them faster somehow (some technology comes to mind).
I'm not saying that there's no use for copper. But c'mon ... the only reason copper is better than fiber right now is entirely regulatory in source, so technically the copper is far inferior, and the regulations making copper better or FiOS worse could easily be changed and/or eliminated.
(One way copper is made better by regulations is the competition it holds that fiber does not.) There's also the ability to have line power on the copper line and not have batteries for your phone, but that's about it. Maybe a few other little things. |
