Goodnight Copper: FCC Votes to Conduct IP Transition Trials → Re: Be Not Afraid

Verizon may investigate rolling out FiOS in more places if regulatory changes no longer require them to maintain copper in areas where FiOS has been deployed. The cost savings FiOS gives Verizon from lower maintenance and fewer service calls cannot be taken advantage of as long as they are required to also maintain copper.

Are they really going to give up Baltimore, Boston, and other areas? It seems unlikely. Switching large metropolitan areas to LTE is not feasible.

Verizon does not want to deal with unions, which is another factor in all of this mess.

Would it still apply if they switched from an all-copper network to an all-fiber network?

Because, technically, Fiber is not a wire.

At least in Massachusetts, it was union members who were the first to mention that Verizon was not expanding FiOS anymore. Most of us thought it was just FUD at the time, but it turns out in the end that Verizon really was done with FiOS except where they already had obligations.

Like any business operating in a saturated market, Verizon is looking to grow and make profits any way they can. The technicians are seen as a cost centre, and the unions were taking a big cut. The copper fire sales were a result, although, these weren't bargain bin prices, and these sales appear to be dripping in corruption that clever legal teams were able to disguise as being honest.