Well, I am doing that for a reason...a good one.

It is not that I've grown weary with my current download stream of 1.5 MBit/sec, which I believe is the average in households here in Calif.

More than a week from now, I am switching to FIOS with a bandwidth tier of 15 Mbit/s Downstream / 2 Mbit/s Upstream. I admit I do not know any advantage of fiber optics over DSL. So I consulted Wiki:

"Verizon FiOS products are delivered over the FTTP network using passive optical network (PON) technology. Voice, video, and data travel over three wavelengths in the infrared spectrum. To serve a home, a single-mode optical fiber extends from an optical line terminal (OLT) at a FiOS central office or head end out to the neighborhoods where an optical splitter fans out the same signal on up to 32 fibers- thus serving up to 32 subscribers. At the subscriber's home, an optical network terminal (ONT) transfers data onto the corresponding copper wiring for phone, video and Internet access."

 Ahhhh...

I don't think I understood that! 

All I know is what my ISP's salesman told me, "FIOS is 12x faster than DSL". He convinced me with that one-liner.

                                                                       FIOS ONT