Re: FIOS installation in the house

["Nathan Meyers-2" <user=8@nabble.blu.org>]

 Doug wrote: 
> Hello: 
> 
> The competition between Verizon and Comcast is heating up enough that 
> for my condos out here in Acton, they will not only install the ONT 
> boxes without a charge, but will pay $100/cable user to the condo 
> association, for a total of $8k.  Although it might sound generous, I 
> am sure the spreadsheet people have figured out the return on their 
> investment. 
>   
Verizon is spending a bundle to build out the last mile - they have to 
compete with an infrastructure that's largely in place. My FIOS 
installation last week took nearly a full day (for a variety of 
frustrating reasons), for which I paid a princely sum of $29. Little 
wonder I had to lock in to a two-year agreement :-). 
> The misses is worried about the kind folks "pulling wires" inside the 
> house to get the copper for resale.  They say they must be able to get 
> inside all the units.  From my reading, it sounds like the exercise is 
> all about installing the Optical Network Terminal (ONT) box, which 
> needs power and a backup and a patch of wall to live in. 
> 
> Does a FIOS installation involve touching any of the wires inside the 
> house?  I argued that they would do absolutely nothing to our POTS 
> (plain old telephone service).  Those twisted pairs of wires stay in 
> place, no one from Verizon would get near them.  We have Comcast 
> service for our phone, and she is concerned the Verizon people will 
> rip out wires inside the home that Comcast needs. 
>