| New FiOS customers who maintain their land-line still get phone service via PSTN; copper or fiber doesn't matter... it still goes back to the CO and is handled the same way. There are differences with respect to signaling/frequencies when using fiber instead of copper, but almost anything you might have used the copper line for before going with FiOS will work exactly the same way. (Some alarm systems might have a problem, for example.) The voice service, however, is exactly the same (presuming you make no changes to your phone service when you get FiOS installed)--same price, same fees, same old PSTN. |
