D. Peter Maus wrote:

ATT has so far presented no documents relating to this, but when my
g/f had her U-Verse installed, they cut the copper and removed the drop
from the building.

This is quite puzzling...what did they replace the drop with? Another
piece of copper? Fiber? Or, when you say "building", do you mean a large
apartment complex, large enough to support/justify its own V-rad?

The "standard" U-verse architecture is copper from the home to the
V-rad. I guess it's possible that in some parts of the country, they are
running fiber to the home (although for years, that has not proven to be
cost effective due to the optical to electrical conversion required at
each and every house).