"I used punch cards to navigate the Internet and it was amazing" OK - now showing my age.....

I had the choice of keeping the copper. I told them to take it out since there was so much static that the voice line was unusable anyway. The tech told me if I ever wanted to go back to copper all they had to do was come out and run a new line from the pole to the house. That being said, voice calls over the fiber line are now crystal clear. Probably never would want to go back to the crappy copper anyway. Paying $29.95 a month for 5Mbs service, 3 time the speed of the DSL service I dropped for exactly the same price. For me, 5 Mbs is enough bandwidth as I just web surf and do e-mail, not much downloading. I could have gone up to 15 Mbs for only $10 more. I would expect Verizon to offer higher speeds at the same price in the future, this is the strategy they had with their DSL service. The data connection is way more reliable then the DSL (which I had to reboot at least 3 times a week), no drops at all for the 4 months I have had the service. They are going to offer TV over the fiber in the next few months in my town, from what I understand they have enough bandwidth to offer hundreds of HDTV channels. I have Cablevision now and they seem to be stuck at around 15 HDTV channels, when I called to ask why they didn't have more (like Discovery HD) that just said that they are out of capacity. The free Dlink router is OK. Been running 4 months without a reboot. Keeps up with the full speed of the fiber connection with no problems.