(OT) No more land line phone lines in America.
On 9/28/09 13:30 , Nick Danger wrote:
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?
Building--The house. Private residence. They ran a data line,
removed the analog copper. Replaced one drop with another. The
installer said the goal is eventually to connect fibre to the building.
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).
That's what Verizon is doing with FiOS, and ATT is doing in some
areas.
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