[Discuss] Verizon phasing out copper

[Richard Pieri]

Matthew Gillen wrote:
> You can buy internet service without getting TV.  They are an ISP.  That
> is how they sell it.

FiOS is a bundled residential service competing directly with various
cable TV/broadband providers like Comcast and Cox. THIS is how VZ sells it.

Look at the technology. Each fiber to the premises carries three
wavelengths of IR light. Each of these three "bands" correspond to one
of the three bundled services: television, telephone, IP traffic. The
technology is designed to carry a bundled broadband service package.

VZ also sells fiber IP services to businesses. This is under the
"Business FiOS Internet" brand name but it sometimes isn't FiOS
technology; it's traditional fiber IP networking. You can't get this in
a residential deployment because it's a different technology at the
endpoints.

-- 
Rich P.