Copper Phone Lines Vs Fiber Optic, Which Is Better?

[Rob Seastrom]

A fair point if you live in a place that has repeated
long-duration-non-catastrophic power outages.  The only time we've had
power out here for long enough that the FiOS battery croaked, power
was out for six days and the POTS phone cable was lying on the ground
along with the FiOS fiber and the power lines (2012 derecho).

By the way, I have "double play" FiOS; no phone service on the ONT.
Kind of no point in yet another phone line when there are multiple
cell phones in the household as well as HTs both in the house and in
the car.

-r


Will Russell <will7777r at earthlink.net> writes:

> The FIOS battery is only good for limited time after a power failure, and then you lose voice telephone.  No such problem with POTS on copper.  Other ways to solve it could be - have a spare battery (and keep it charged somehow), have an emergency generator with plenty of fuel, or use some other means to communicate.
>
> Will
>
>> On Sep 26, 2015, at 10:20 PM, Rob Seastrom <rs at seastrom.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> Richard Demaret <ric.demaret at gmail.com> writes:
>> 
>>> Greetings Everyone,
>>> 
>>> As all of you know Verizon has been pushing FIOS very hard for some time. 
>>> 
>>> I still have copper lines and want to keep them.
>>> 
>>> Am I being foolish, or should I go to FIOS?
>> 
>> Back when DSL over UNEs was (a) mandated by law, and (b) a viable
>> technology generally for delivering "reasonable speed broadband" in a
>> contemporary context, I completely sympathized with this sentiment.
>> 
>> But time's moved on - the 2010 4/1 standard for "broadband" was
>> attainable under favorable conditions with DSL, while the 2015 25/3
>> standard is only rarely attainable via VDSL[2], lucky breaks on plant
>> maintenance, and proximity to the CO or remote equipment.
>> 
>> This is my set-up for the question - what problem are you solving by
>> keeping copper?
>> 
>> -r
>> 
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