Articles About Verizon's Copper Phone Lines & Verizon's Unwillingness To Maintain Them

[Patrick Gray]

Louis,

   I agree. Most folks don't realize the fees and tariffs that the LEC's
pocket and call profit.

Also, my neighbor across the street, a retired school teacher was having
problems with her cable/telephone that she asked me to look at. Verizon
when they upgraded my neighborhood nine years ago to FIOS, one of the first
in this locale of Northern Virginia, had "upgraded" her from copper to
fiber optic. Unbekownst to her they had "bundled" her for cable t.v. even
though she was receiving her cable service from Cox cable.

It was quite the 'adventure' as I was routed from call center to call
center dealing with Custom Service, Billing, Engineering, and requesting to
escalate the ticket as each person in their department wasn't allowed to
deviate from their prescribed "script". We finally sorted it out, with a
substantial refund coming back to my neighbor, but took no less than seven
hours of being put on hold and listening to "*please stay on line, we
really appreciate you" *or something to that effect.

Switching from copper to fiber, the LEC's are also not compelled to share
access to customers with the CLEC's.

Ma' Bell is back, and boy is she angry!!!

Pat KF4MTV



On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 12:03 AM, Louis Mamakos <louie at transsys.com> wrote:

> It would be interesting and fun to have the FCC allow Verizon to phase out
> their copper wire networks in some markets, but force them to unbundle the
> fiber loops to competitors.  That’s one reason they are anxious to migrate
> you off the wire loops; no one else can offer service (like DSL) over their
> facilities.
>
> Perhaps the FCC should also exempt Verizon from taking any USF money if
> they’re not going to offer universal service any longer..
>
> Live by the tariff, die by the tariff..
>
> louie
> wa3ymh
>
>
>
> On 5 Oct 2015, at 17:00, Richard Demaret wrote:
>
> Greetings Everyone,
>>
>> Here is an interesting link to someone in our local area who had problems
>> with Verizon and their copper phone lines:
>>
>>
>> http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/03/verizon-accused-of-refusing-to-fix-broken-landline-phone-service/
>>
>> Here is another article about Verizon's copper lines nationwide:
>>
>>
>> http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/08/why-verizon-is-trying-very-hard-to-force-fiber-on-its-customers/
>>
>> You might want to write the FCC and / or your congress person.
>>
>> Richard KI4KXJ
>>
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