FIOS again...Verizon plans to drop land lines with copper wires

Verizon has left a lot of its landline customers without service...forever, it seems. Many of them in Downtown areas where water from Hurricane Sandy wasted the copper wiring,-- people have given up waiting and now get their phone service from Time Warner.

This from Public Radio here in NY:

Verizon is hoping to pilot a new phone system that doesn’t rely on costly copper wiring in areas ravaged by Hurricane Sandy. Under a plan currently before regulators the telecommunications giant would turn home phones in areas like Fire Island into “tethered” cell phones. New York Times reporter Patrick McGeehan talks about the controversial switch.

• Waiting for the Phone to Ring, 6 Months After the Storm
• Customers Quit Verizon Over Extended Phone and Internet Outages
• Despite Problems After Sandy, Wireless Providers Resist Change

Guests:

Patrick McGeehan

SEE ALSO

http://www.wnyc.org/articles/wnyc-news/2013/may/05/waiting-phone-ring-six-months-after-storm/