Verizon Fios mandatory switch

[justaregularguy]

Verizon is  discontinuing all copper wires in the US and switching to fios.
The problem with that is for me I know some ppl who switched and now have HORRIBLE service!

Also during hurricane sandy when internet was down-we had service thanks to our copper lines

I am very upset that they want everyone to switch- is there any way or other service that is keeping copper lines in service that I can switch to?  Anyone have any suggestions?

[etech0]

FWIW when I switched it was a tremendous improvement

[justaregularguy]

FWIW when I switched it was a tremendous improvement

truthfully I’m trying to convince my mother (it’s for her) that it just might be better and the ones who had it worse is the  exception not the rule but still what about  hurricanes or other outages?

Do you know a  way around it?

[etech0]

truthfully I’m trying to convince my mother (it’s for her) that it just might be better and the ones who had it worse is the  exception not the rule but still what about  hurricanes or other outages?

Do you know a  way around it?

I didn't really use my phone much, so I can't speak about power outages (though your best bet for then might be a cheap prepaid cell phone, assuming the cell towers don't go down). But my internet speed went from ~1mbps to ~100! Our copper wires tended to go down also so there was really no downside to switching, plus my bill got cut in half when switching to FIOS.

[justaregularguy]

I didn't really use my phone much, so I can't speak about power outages (though your best bet for then might be a cheap prepaid cell phone, assuming the cell towers don't go down). But my internet speed went from ~1mbps to ~100! Our copper wires tended to go down also so there was really no downside to switching, plus my bill got cut in half when switching to FIOS.

i hear you but our house is kind of old fashioned; no internet( plug-in yes, WiFi no)(the rep even asked us “whats your cable provider?” And we said “to what? Our non-existent tv?” Hope he didn’t have a heart attack!;))so the only thing for me would be telephone service which isn’t a factor of fast/slow-more of clear-staticy

[lubaby]

i hear you but our house is kind of old fashioned; no internet( plug-in yes, WiFi no)(the rep even asked us “whats your cable provider?” And we said “to what? Our non-existent tv?” Hope he didn’t have a heart attack!;))so the only thing for me would be telephone service which isn’t a factor of fast/slow-more of clear-staticy

Same internet coming into the house, just different way of it being utilized.

[justaregularguy]

Same internet coming into the house, just different way of it being utilized.

we have a little stick from t-mobile that goes into my computer idk if that’s not called plug-in but wtvr.
I understand that our calls will now be over internet which is my concern