On Tue, 06 Nov 2012 12:36:30 -0500, George
wrote:

On 11/3/2012 12:14 AM, wrote:
I spoke to someone from Verizon this morning who said that their plan is to start removing copper and transition everyone over to fiber. Thus ensuring that in the event of a disaster nobody has phone service after a few hours. I asked about a bigger battery and was told that the charger they use isn't powerful enough for it.

They call this progress.

By the way, when they install fios they take away the copper wire so you can never go back to it.


If you were the phone company what would you do? You have an aging
copper plant and you have a new fiber system that can perform all of the
functionality of the copper plant plus add additional capabilities.
Would you continue to maintain the copper plant and also the fiber plant?

But they are supposed to have agreed with the Public Utility
Commission in some states not to remove the copper, for the sake of a
later owner, even if the current one promises to always want fios.