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As Verizon plans a fiber expansion in Boston, CEO Lowell McAdam yesterday said the company is talking to other cities about potentially building fiber networks.
Verizon stopped expanding its FiOS fiber-to-the-home Internet, TV, and phone service several years ago, making it a surprise when in April the telco announced plans to replace its copper network in Boston with fiber. In an earnings call yesterday (see transcript), McAdam said, “We are talking to other cities about similar partnerships.”
Verizon’s fiber expansion plans are as much about improving backhaul to its more profitable mobile network as they are about bringing wired Internet to people’s homes. “We will create a single fiber-optic network platform capable of supporting wireless and wireline technologies and multiple products,” McAdam said.
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Source: Ars Technica – Verizon talking to cities about fiber expansion after years of stagnation