From: jishnu@nospam.verizon.net   
      
   On 7/2/2014 10:12 PM, hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:   
   > On Wednesday, July 2, 2014 5:42:27 PM UTC-4, Robert Heller wrote:   
   >   
   >>> What? Verizon is still the ILEC for a big chunk of the country.   
   >   
   >> No, they have sold off most of their *copper* landline business and are   
   concentrating on wireless. (At least on the East coast.)   
   >   
   > No.  Verizon is still heavy into POTS landline business in the mid-Atlantic   
   region.  While many landline customers have dropped Vz in favor of   
   Comcast-cable or wireless-only, the majority still use Vz.  Some customers   
   have an alternative phone company,    
   but still use Vz infrastructure to carry calls.   
      
   Any estimate of how many Verizon customers have dropped Verizon POTS   
   service for Verizon FIOS which gives you telephone service to which you   
   can connect your old POTS set and carry on as if nothing happened, until   
   power goes out for more than 4 hours?   
      
   Since I use my old POTS line only for outgoing calls for conferences   
   calls, I dropped traditional POTS and switched it over to Verizon FIOS   
   when I got FIOS for internet and TV. I wonder how many have done so in   
   general. I know that the proportion is rather significant in the area   
   where I live in NJ.   
      
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