Broadband in America from an insider.

You are spot on.
The only thing I see different on the east coast here in the mid-Atlantic area, is we are refusing copper installs and repairs in targeted areas. If fiber has been placed and turned up as an overlay to the copper, a copper trouble will be deemed "fiber is the only fix". Copper installs in a fiber area? Not a chance. We have several Wire Centers where we have turned off the copper switch (in theory) and the remaining copper customers either make the switch or go elsewhere. By the time it gets to that point for them, they have been contacted several times over a 4-6 month period telling them to migrate or die with the copper.

The only thing preventing a forced migration to or install of fiber is if the customer's service is buried to a building that is in a concrete/blacktop island and has functioning copper. We don't provide a buried path under their parking lots - that is their responsibility. And even at that, we have equipment in the CO that is fiber based and interfaces the copper cable there, so the copper switch itself can still be killed - the customer''s end is still copper.

That's the basics of it, but yeah, we are refusing copper fixes and installations in certain areas.