Verizon furthers copper-to-fiber replacement strategy in 4 states

Verizon continues to make progress with its copper-to-fiber migration strategy. The service provider, according to a series of Federal Communications Commission filings, is retiring copper network facilities in White Plains (NY), Pittsburgh (PA), Falls Church (VA), and Providence (RI). Similar to other markets like New York City, when the migration is completed Verizon will no longer offer services over copper wires and maintain those facilities. However, it will continue to offer consumers and businesses a 64 Kbps grade public switched telephone network (PSTN) over the fiber connection.

It emphasized that consumers, the majority of which are plain old telephone service (POTS) customers, will not see any effect to the services they use and it is not a transition to IP-based services. Verizon has not revealed whether it would try to upsell these customers with FiOS services now that they will be connected to the fiber-to-the-home network.