said by Surfinusa :

Why not spend the money on 11,000 miles of fiber to some of the desparately needed communities in the US.

This year Verizon Business marked the halfway point in its deployment of the 50,000-mile, all-optical ultra long haul (ULH) U.S. network.

said by TKJunkMail :

Verizon added 25,000 miles of backbone fiber in 2007 in the US.
And that doesn't include FTTH local fiber.
»www.hardwarezone.com/news/view.p···66&cid=5

Check out Verizon's long haul worldwide fiber network here in this map:
»www.verizonbusiness.com/us/about···aps.fxml