[Discuss] Verizon getting out of being regulated by coercing customers to switch from copper to FIOS

[lconrad at laymusic.org (Laura Conrad)]

>>>>> "MBR" == MBR  <mbr at arlsoft.com> writes:


    MBR> Apparently I'm not Verizon's only victim.  Verizon's coercing
    MBR> customers all over the country to give up their regulated
    MBR> copper line service and replace it with unregulated FIOS.

And their policy of not repairing copper extends to places like
Cambridge, where FIOS isn't even an option.  

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