| What about Copper Theft when VZ FiOS Migration is complete ? In Florida VZ was smart to go with Fiber. But what happens when VZ starts to to force migrate Copper customers to FiOS ? VZ already has 3/1Mpbs DSL speed tier on FiOS. Last I heard VZ wanted to force switch everyone in wesley chapel FL because FiOS Penetration is so high there thanks to the then new home construction of homes with fiber already installed. Will VZ sell the Copper POTS network to another provider ? I Don't think so. But IF VZ Recycles the copper then it has the extra funds to purchase more fiber For FiOS without crying about not making enough revenue from FiOS and the Copper thieves will have to look elsewhere. |
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| It's Offical ! »www.fiercetelecom.com/story/veri···11-08-12
Replacing copper with fiber
Another area where Verizon believes it can possibly reduce costs is to shut down its aging copper network and move customers onto fiber where it has gained decent FiOS penetration.
Last year, the service provider migrated a number of its customers in Bartonsville, Texas off the existing copper network and onto fiber.
"It was a neighborhood that had more than 50 percent penetration so it made financial sense to connect the ONT to the home and delete the copper network," Shammo said, adding that they are "doing a trial in Florida in another community."
Outside of Texas, Verizon is now researching how it could make a similar copper to fiber transition in Wesley Chapel, Fla., a rural town outside Tampa.
Regardless of its progress in replacing copper with fiber, Shammo is quick to point out that the real cost challenge with deploying FTTH is not the equipment, but actually the man hours it takes to connect a subscriber to the network.
"Because it takes an employee--it's the hourly salary of that employee that gets capitalized for connecting up that home," he said. "That's really the intensive capital nature of the connection. It's not the hardware." |
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Re: What about Copper Theft when VZ FiOS Migration is complete ? Will VZ sell the Copper POTS network to another provider?
[i.e. if you have FiOS installed in your house, the copper line(s) are removed.] |
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