Re: Verizon, FiOS, and CLEC/UNE orders (was AT&T diversity)

[Jimmy Hess <mysidia () gmail com>]

On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 2:28 PM, John T. Yocum
<john.yocum () fluidhosting com> wrote:
> VZ wants to get rid of their copper plant. It's expensive to maintain, and

As opposed to fiber plant which is indestructible and cheap to maintain?


Well, if VZ owns the copper, if it's not being used to provide a
service, and the price of
copper keeps going up,  it's only a matter of time before VZ should
want to take their bits of unused cable back.   How useful is leaving
a dormant loop in place just because someone might theoretically want
it someday?

Seems like a waste for VZ not to reclaim it  so it can be recycled/put
to good use.

> it requires that they sell service to competitors. Once they've disconnected
> their customers from it, they can just eliminate the copper plant. POTS

You sure the regulations won't eventually be updated to apply some
rules to whatever POTS is being replaced with?     Possibly years
before they could finish eliminating their copper plant,  which
doesn't
likely happen until the pricing allows POTS  customers  to get FiOS
delivery installed for free as a
cheaper alternative to POTS delivery.


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-JH