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Falls Church Copper Customers to Get Fiber Network from Verizon

adtVerizon has transitioned its Falls Church customers from copper to their fiber network. With this, it has taken a major leap in its goal to retire more of its aging wireless facilities. Verizon has already planned on replacing copper distribution and its loop facilities with FTTH at a few of its locations in the Falls Church Central office.

Once the process is completed, Verizon has promised to provide services over the fiber network. Similar to various other marketers were coppered has been retired, the service providers complained that it is unable to provide the IP-based FiOS services but will provide traditional POTS services over FTTH network architecture.

“Following the transition to fiber, Verizon will continue to offer these customers the same POTS service over fiber at the same or better price as they received on copper facilities, with no change in the underlying features and functionalities in their service,” Verizon said in an FCC filing. “There are no wholesale customers at these locations at this time.”

It also appended that if a wholesale provider is willing to provide service at any of the affected locations, they will be eligible to buy services over a more reliable network as they have done the same in other areas where copper fiber has deployed.

Over years, Verizon has made steady progress in transforming from copper to fiber, meeting it’s migration goals for 2015. By the end of this year, it has set a goal of converting a total of 200000 customers from copper to the fiber network. Despite its constant efforts and potential to provide reliable speed services like FiOS, Verizon’s copper retirement efforts have been previously fraught with controversy. It has battled accusations from the Communications Workers of America union that is in the negotiating process of a new contract.