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Originally Posted by ghfromaltonbay
Heard through the Verizon retiree grapevine that Verizon was looking to sell their landlines in northern New England (VT,NH,ME).
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He is indeed correct, but one thing to keep in mind that Verizon wants to dump
all of its copper lines. That's one reason it's pushing fiber as hard as it can. (It doesn't mean they want to dump the customers, just the antiquated infrastructure).
Copper is expensive. The support equipment that goes along with it is expensive. Maintaining copper is expensive. Copper has a limited bandwidth.
Fiber is cheap. The network equipment that supports fiber is getting cheaper all the time. It is also future-proof, meaning it has almost unlimited bandwidth for future applications and needs.
It will be interesting to see how Metrocast and other cable MSOs will respond to Verizon's move. If they want to compete they'll have to work hard to give their customers what they want.