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3 edits | U-Verse is the way to go... U-Verse is the way to go for several reasons-the main one being that the largest cost for any system is at the home end of the connection-installation. I've heard that a FIoS install can cost Verizon upwards of 500-1000 dollars per home. If you can use the wiring that's already there then you save a bundle. Eventually, V-Rads will shrink in size small enough to be located on neighborhood utility poles and 100/5 will become the standard V-Rad speeds. I wouldn't be surprised is Verizon is looking at an on pole V-Rad solution as well-which is why they aren't expanding, even into areas where they already have fiber strung on the poles.
V-Rads also can supply home voice phone power during power outages-and eventually that part of the V-Rad will be powered by the batteries located in the C.O. via copper pairs. Already Verizon has decided that they will NOT replace batteries in the UPSes they have provided for FiOS-so once the batteries in yours dies you're SOL. Of course, this also assumes that your phone doesn't require AC power to work-which is why I maintain POTS service and one corded phone at my house. |
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neftv
join:2000-10-01
Broomall, PA Reviews:
 ·SIP Global Phone
·QuantumVoice
 ·Verizon FiOS
| In my area maintaining a pots line just to have it cost around $26 month minimum including taxes, fees and the shinanigens they add in. This is metered phone plan (the cheapest) too.
If it just for security to have a phone any ole Cell phone (active or not) you can dial 911 to get emergency services and that cost nothing.
One thing I been meaning to do is test it some how with out getting into trouble or perhaps taking a walk to the police station to ask about the 911 on old cellphones. |
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Zoder
join:2002-04-16
Miami, FL | reply to qworster
said by qworster:If you can use the wiring that's already there then you save a bundle. Eventually, V-Rads will shrink in size small enough to be located on neighborhood utility poles and 100/5 will become the standard V-Rad speeds. I wouldn't be surprised is Verizon is looking at an on pole V-Rad solution as well-which is why they aren't expanding, even into areas where they already have fiber strung on the poles. What's your time frame for this? Something that fits inside of a cabinet is not going to shrink to the size small enough to hang on a pole in the next few years |
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Reviews:
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·Brand X Internet
·DSL EXTREME
2 edits | Actually, it can... Actually it can, because the pole mounted ones would only support perhaps 30 houses, while the big V-Rads support about 10 times that amount. In front of my house I have a pole mounted cell site for MetroPCS. Fed by fiber, it's about one foot square and six feet long-and hangs right on the pole, complete with an electric meter. A few years ago, this site would have required its own building. |
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Sammer
join:2005-12-22
Canonsburg, PA | reply to qworster
Re: U-Verse is the way to go... said by qworster:V-Rads also can supply home voice phone power during power outages-and eventually that part of the V-Rad will be powered by the batteries located in the C.O. via copper pairs. Already Verizon has decided that they will NOT replace batteries in the UPSes they have provided for FiOS-so once the batteries in yours dies you're SOL. Of course, this also assumes that your phone doesn't require AC power to work-which is why I maintain POTS service and one corded phone at my house. The batteries in the FiOS UPS are replaceable and not expensive. As was reported here nearly a quarter of homes no longer have landlines. I will add to that many landline phones are now portables and or have answering machines that have power supplies or chargers that plug in to AC power. Sooner or later AT&T will ask to be relieved from the responsibility and unnecessary expense of providing battery power from their COs. |
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