Got a letter in the mail notifying me that I have to call them to schedule an appointment for the upgrade, if not they will disconnect the service on March 15, 2017
Don't complain at least you have FIOS available.
+1Where can I sign up to get a letter?
The real question is why don't you have OBI.
the problem is that I must use FiOS and can't use any thrid party telephone company anymore allowing them to rip me off
My father got FIOS nearly 10 years ago. He had 3 phone lines on copper. He convinced them to leave him one of them as is, which he uses for fax.
See if you can get AT&T in your areaWhen Verizon tried to force us to switch awhile back(because the copper wire wasnt working) the tech told us that if we had AT&T they would be forced to replace the wire because they couldn't force the costumers of another company to switch to FIOS.
did he ever have a problem that the FIOS didn't work so he had to use the copper?
If you have a power outage FIOS won't work but copper will (if you have a non-cordless phone)
Please elaborate, if it's AT&T, the at&t needs to fix the wiring? (At&t is not a Verizon reseller like exchange etc., They are there own company with their own infrastructure, so Verizon doesn't even do the repairs)