Verizon Remains Focused on Its Network
Verizon continues to invest in its network, with $17.8 billion in capital spending last year, said Donna Epps, who directs Verizon’s domestic public policy team, in a blog post. “We remain committed to working with policymakers to keep Americans working…
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to strengthen these vital communications systems,” she said. Policymakers at the state and local level “will also play an important role in the coming year,” Epps wrote. “Local leaders can help incent investment in broadband infrastructure -- like in Boston, where Mayor Martin J. Walsh announced a partnership with Verizon this year to replace the city’s copper-based infrastructure with a state-of-the-art fiber-optic network. FiOS became available to order in the first Boston neighborhoods earlier this month, less than eight months since the mayor’s announcement this past spring.” Congress also has a role to play and needs to update communications law, Epps said. “A lot has changed since the Telecommunication Act was updated last in 1996. Services most Americans take for granted today did not even exist then, and large portions of the law pertain to services that no longer exist or have become completely irrelevant such as competition for long-distance phone service.”