[geeks] going over the cliff

[John Francini]

They drop DSL because they want to get rid of the copper infrastructure --
which in some cases is many decades old. And yes, I know that in many case the
copper pair in your home doesn't run all the way back to the CO any more, but
goes only as far as a subscriber line concentrator or some such -- but they
want to get rid of even that part of the copper wiring plant.

If you get FIOS installed, they will *remove* any existing copper wiring if
you have overhead service. (Kinda hard to do that for underground.) So it's
effectively a one-way trip.

j



On 1 Jun 2013, at 9:45, adh at an.bradford.ma.us (Sandwich Maker) wrote:

> " From: Joshua Boyd <jdboyd at jdboyd.net>
> "
> " On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 04:25:25PM -0400, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
> " >
> " > FiOS not available yet?
> "
> " Did they restart developing FiOS in new markets yet?
>
> it's been creeping into towns around here in ma.  what i hate - they
> drop dsl, which costs half as much, when they intro it.  there should
> be a place in the mkt for both.
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