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Phone Line Alchemy: Copper Into Fiber by bucy at 3:36 pm EDT, Oct 11, 2004
] The new offering is part of a multibillion-dollar bet by ] Verizon and the other Bell companies. They are gambling ] that by going door to door to replace century-old copper ] wire technology with high-speed fiber optic lines, they ] can hang onto their most valuable asset: a direct line ] into the home of each customer.
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RE: Phone Line Alchemy: Copper Into Fiber
by Decius at 5:46 pm EDT, Oct 11, 2004

bucy wrote:
] ] The new offering is part of a multibillion-dollar bet by
] ] Verizon and the other Bell companies. They are gambling
] ] that by going door to door to replace century-old copper
] ] wire technology with high-speed fiber optic lines, they
] ] can hang onto their most valuable asset: a direct line
] ] into the home of each customer.

I have fiber in the loop. And the fucking FCC won't let them sell me any advanced services on it. Its no different from being on copper.