My phone service went out when Irene hit the Maryland area. I've called Verizon on multiple occassions before someone finally listened to the complaint that all the neighbors on the same side of the street as well as others directly behind me had no service. After call # 6, I was finally told that a crew had been dispatched to replace the entire cable servicing all the homes. That was 5 days ago. I just tried to get yet another status as the website is absolutely useless and all I got was a busy signal. If this is the way you treat your customers with a landline, I have not intention of purchasing a FIOS plan when & if it ever comes to Baltimore City.