Verizon just filed official doc's to "retire" a whole big bunch of copper based facilities.
This one refers to their NY operation, with lots of NYC "wire centers" going bye bye.
"Verizon plans to retire a number of copper facilities and replace them with fiber facilities to provide services over its fiber-to- the-home network infrastructure"
FCC filings are often available in Microsoft Word, quasi text, and pdf formats. The URLs are identical except for the trailing portion.
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