Recently, there have been reports appearing on the Internet that Verizon is looking to discontinue legacy services in several parts of the country. One named area is New England, which is where I am.
Now, I do have FiOS at the house, so, I know that I'm all set.
But, my question concerns those pesky "dark zones". In my town, there are lots of areas where Verizon has decided not to make FiOS available to residents & businesses. In those areas, Verizon still sells copper based POTS and DSL over existing cables. In many of those areas, the electrical and phone utilities are underground, and, it is thought that Verizon simply doesn't want to be bothered trenching yards &/or driveways to run fibers into buildings.
What is going to happen in those situations? Will Verizon allocate resources to do proper fiber installs...or will the company try to deploy various alternatives including the 5G wireless delivery or possibly simply cutting off landline services and giving those affected by it some sort of running discount to simply switch over 100% to Verizon Wireless?
My reason for asking is that the Church I attend is in one of those "dark zones". The two cable companies that service the town have no conduits under our side of the street along our block. Verizon has no fiber (FiOS or wholesale) either. All that is there is the old high pair count copper that dates back to New England Telephone and a 50-pair feed running into the Church's phone closet. The last time Verizon had workers go into their manhole in front of the building, one of the workers pointed out an empty Verizon couduit and said that it could be used for fiber if Verizon so chose to pull it.
So, what should I expect Verizon to be offering as an alternative the drop dead date approaches?
