Verizon did sell off it's plant in like 16 states and if Fios was in those areas already which some was it went with it. Verizon is only interested in Calf, Texas, Florida and the Mid Atlantic from N.Carolina to New York and those are the areas it still has. Most of what they sold was old GTE areas.
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