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Tuesday, October 11, 2016

Verizon threatens to fire workers who fix copper phone lines - Cabling Install

Here a Disturbing thing. I read about, at Cablinginstall.com. Apparently, Verizon, is trying to Force Voice Only Customers to Change over to using their Cell Service, "Field technicians are required to have VoiceLink units on their trucks and to refuse to repair copper plant serving voice-only customers,"...

Don


From the article:

This directive came in a memo from Verizon to workers on September 20. "Failure to follow this directive may result in disciplinary action up to and including dismissal," the memo said. It isn't clear whether this policy has been applied to Verizon workers outside of Pennsylvania. The memo and other documents were made public by the Communications Workers of America (CWA) union, which asked the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission to put a stop to the forced copper-to-wireless conversions. The wireless home phone service, VoiceLink, is not a proper replacement for copper phone lines because it doesn't work with security alarms, fax machines, medical devices such as pacemakers that require telephone monitoring, and other services, the union said.

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