On Sep 13, 11:07?pm, willshak wrote:
on 9/13/2007 10:48 PM mm said the following:

A friend tells me tonight that if you subscribe to FIOS from Verizon,
at least when you use it for everything you have (tv, internet, phone,
or any subset) when they install the optical cable, they take out your
copper.

So that you can never go back.

I would think that the telephone and cable tv companies would have
something to say about who can remove their equipment.

He says that even if you sell your house, the new owner can't get
simple copper phone or DSL line, unless he pays someone privately to
reinstall the copper wires.

That's why my friend kept a simple phone line, and didn't get VOIP.

That's what he says, and he's no dummy. Does anyone think he's wrong?

Is Verizon only in the mid-atlantic, or the northeast?

(Missa, this would explain why it is worth it to dig those trenches
and holes to run lines where there are few or no subscribers. Talk to
me later.)

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Bill
In Hamptonburgh, NY
To email, remove the double zeroes after @

its true, verizon is spending billions, and pushing to convert
everyone to fibre. once you get fios you can never go back to copper.

I am very sorry I supposedly upgraded from DSL to FIOS, the internet
portion is great but I have had serious long lasting bad phone
troubles, and they really dont care about poor phone service.

If I had to to do over again i would of kept with DSL

after weeks of calling at the end multiple times daily they finally
had a network tech troubleshoot and fix the problem that effected our
central office, a noisey bad T1 router.

it shouldnt of taken over a month to fix it and I am so ****ed I have
thought about dropping that line altogether.

their service sucks