Am 22.03.2023 schrieb "David" <
wb8...@panix.com>:
> On 3/20/2023 9:05, Steven Fleckenstein, N2UBP wrote:
>
> > Frontier is not a very progressive telco. I haven't worked there
> > for several years, but I've never heard of someone being pushed
> > off of their service for fiber. It sounds like a marketing ploy
> > to push people to *buy* new service. I find it very unlikely that
> > they are shutting down copper POTS.
>
>
> Note Verizon *is* engaged in an aggressive campaign to migrate POTS
> users in FIOS-fed neighborhoods over. Their catch phrase is "Fiber is
> the only Fix." I was forced off two years ago.
>
> The reason, as told to me by a recent ex-employee, is money. Not just
> their decaying, East Germany-ish, level of outside copper plant, but
> the 5ESS's feeding those POTS users. They may be a sunk cost, but
> they have {significant} ongoing license fees on their software aka
> "Generic".