On Fri, 14 Sep 2007 13:34:17 GMT, "newman"
wrote:

I converted everything to fios (TV, internet, phone) some months ago.

the installer left the copper in place and said I should leave it because I
might want to change phone companies later.

live in Texas.

Is this Verizon in Texas, or another company? It's another company, I
think.

My friend and I are in Maryland, but I know Verizon is in a lot of
states north of here.

Sometimes the same company has different policies in different places.
My brother got cable internet in Dallas, Comcast I think, and the free
install wouldn't put it in the room he wanted (which was the hardest
room). When I got back here, the guy at the comcast booth at a hamfest
said in Baltiomre that they would put int in any room you wanted, for
the free install, even if it required work. He knew I was just
chatting, and not a customer so he had little reason to lie, and
that's what he said.


"mm" wrote in message
news 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.

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.)