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Fiber-to-Copper in Apartment

Hello, all. I live in a decades-old small (8 units) appartment building and was recently (but not surprised) that I received a letter from Verizon about a switch-over from copper to fiber.

I've had a POTS phone for decades and some friends of mine in single-family residences have some sort of converter that allows for use of the old analog phone devices on the fiber cable. Verizon states they will use existing building POTS wiring for the conversion and a subscriber box will have battery backup. Does anyone know where this subscriber box is to be located? My guess is it would be located where the POTS fan-out box now resides (the laundry room). Also, does the converter box supply a dial tone? Thanks for your time and comment. Sincerely,

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J. B. Wood	            e-mail: arl_123234@hotmail.com
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Yes, it will probably be put where your phone wiring currently comes in. At our house that's in the basement. The converter is essentially a miniature transistorized CO that provides dial tone and ring current, and interfaces your analog phones to the FIOS network. Our FIOS box supports pulse dialing so our old Western Electric rotary phones work fine with it, but it's a few years old now and I don't know if the newer units still have this feature.

The main downside is that you'll lose phone service in a power outage long enough to exhaust your local backup battery. With the copper lines power was supplied by the CO.

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Thanks for the reply, Roger. That's what I suspected. A co-worker has that setup in his house basement where the FIOS cable enters and then is split into coax for his cable modem and wiring to his POTS phones. It's like Willie Nelson's Martin guitar. You'd have to pry my cold, dead hands from those 30+ year old Western Electric DTMF phones that I use. Sincerely,

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