[BC] Verizon FiOS, was Re: Verizon T1 and batteries

[rj carpenter]

My friend, who has Verizon FiOS, asked his Verizon-engineer neighbor 
about replacement batteries for residential FiOS users.

"I asked [him] about the backup battery replacement situation and he 
allowed that No Replacements is now Verizon policy and that it also 
applies to FiOS.  So, the message is - keep a copper line as a backup."

Could one expect that, maybe a decade from now, whole neighborhoods will 
be without [FiOS] phones when the power goes out?

Get your station's investigative reports to work to verify this.

bob carpenter