By Peter Svensson Sep 30, 2008
New York regulators have raised the possibility of banning Verizon Communications Inc. from installing its fiber-optic FiOS service in New York City until the company makes sure it's doing enough to provide electrical grounding for its equipment in homes. Poorly grounded equipment or cables could give electrical shocks or start fires, but there have been no reports of FiOS equipment causing harm to people or property, Verizon said. The New York State Public Service Commission, which regulates telecommunications, has been dogging Verizon on the electrical issue since 2006, and the staff concluded in a report to the commission last week that the company's remedies don't go far enough. New York is the only state to have raised these concerns, but Verizon is installing FiOS in 15 others. Fiber-optic cable itself isn't electrically conductive, but in most of the homes Verizon connects to the service, it wall-mounts a box that sprouts a coaxial video cable. The New York regulators are concerned that the coaxial cable could inadvertently carry a high voltage.
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