I'd gladly sue them demanding they upgrade my area to FiOS and use the discovery process to uncover why certain areas were NOT upgraded to FiOS during the initial rollout and why FiOS expansion has been suspended.

In my book they can shut down POTS/DSL but only if those areas are upgraded to FiOS.

As odd as it sounds, some people dont want FIOS. I will never understand why someone would say no to having a 21st Century communications link on their property, but people are WEIRD.

Hey, if they dont like it, move to the much more common Non-FIOS VZ territory, sometimes only a mile out of FIOS territory (or less, in instances where VZ chose to only deploy to 1 neighborhood).

But why? VZ barely maintains its copper, its falling off of the poles. Its not like the POTS service could have been that great with ancient unmaintained infrastructure.

I agree that where FIOS has been deployed, the Copper should be removed and recycled. However, the gutting of regulations set forth during the era of Ma Bell must stop. We need to modernize the requirements to the Internet age - mandate Universal Service of basic broadband, just like Telephone service. Maintain the 5 9s standard for Voice uptime - should be easier on Fiber!

If Verizon (the RBOC/exGTE operating companies of VZ) wants to survive, they need to get moving with building out FIOS to its massive landline footprint that is yet to be upgraded. The thing is....I dont think VZs CEO wants the old Wireline divisions to survive. Mr. McWireless grand plan is probably to divest the Ex-Bell and GTE operating companies so that VZ is only made up of VZW, and VZ Business (MCI-Worldcom). (See his ramblings about trimming the tree from some time ago) With some creative accounting, they could dump the debt of buying out VZW onto the divested landlines division.

Its not going to just be Bell Atlantic...its now Bell Titanic! Bell Atlantic II would HAVE to deploy FTTH to survive, with no wireless cash cow. But it would have no money due to being saddled with VZs old debt. So who would take this on?

The new AT&T? CenturyLink?
Talk about going full circle. Either of these options brings Ma Bell 1 step from resurrection minus Bell Labs/Western Electric. Only this time its a more evil, zombie Ma, not the old mean Ma that actually did some (a lot) of good while having bad sides.

:/

We are already getting Pa Cable with the TW/Comcast potential merger......and he doesn't have good intentions. Hes the type of Pa that abandons your family on the street, while taking all the money.