Replacing Copper With Fiber, er, FiOS (was Re: Muni Fiber and Politics)

Tue Jul 22 02:19:43 UTC 2014

On 7/21/2014 at 9:53 PM Jay Ashworth wrote:

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|There's a messier problem here, that I don't see much coverage of (so 
|perhaps I heard it wrong):
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|Is not Verizon trying to replace *regulated* ILEC copper with 
|*unregulated* FiOS VoF?
|

>From what I've read in the local Hurricane Sandy coverage (I'm in the NYC
area), I'd have to say 'yes' to that.

|Isn't that pulling a pretty fast one?

You sound surprised.