voipguy
join:2006-05-31
Forest Hills, NY
| Missing the Point
FiOS was sold to investors as not only a way to "future-proof" the network, but as a way to save money on maintenance.
In theory, the copper plant would be retired, and so would (nearly) all the technicians that maintained it.
Verizon has yet to turn-down copper, even in a single neighborhood, to see if this theory works. |
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ssmd
@usda.gov | They are doing it in our neighborhood (Silver Spring, MD). They even sent a rep to inform us they were going to run fiber to our house, apparently not realizing that we already had it. |
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Oregonian2
join:2008-07-16
Beaverton, OR
 ·Verizon FIOS
 ·SpiritOne / Aracne..
| reply to voipguy
said by voipguy  :Verizon has yet to turn-down copper, even in a single neighborhood, to see if this theory works. Possibly true, but I doubt they've done much maintenance on copper runs that aren't being used anymore -- and one's decommissioned copper probably provides additional alternate swapping pairs for those still being maintained in a common run. Still pumping air through the system to keep water out though. They do that for fiber? |
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