US islanders battle telecom giant
Fire Island residents take on phone company Verizon to save their telecoms network from being replaced.

Published On 8 Aug 2013
Residents of Fire Island, just outside New York City, are battling a US corporate giant to save their telecoms network.
Phone company Verizon wants to replace old copper wire landlines with a wireless system.
But locals say the new system will limit their internet services and stop them from making important calls.
Al Jazeera’s John Terrett reports.