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I've been searching Verizon's website... do they still offer OPX? I have a business and am opening a additional location in the same town across the street. Had it been in the same block, I'd just run a wire over!!

I have VOIP, not through Verizon, and operate a Nortel Meridian system. Do you think they'd still do an OPX when my primary service isn't with them.

How pricey is an OPX?

Not to sound unhelpful....but it seems the best place to start would be to call Verizon, or even your VOIP provider, they may indeed offer a similar service.

Steve

I suppose I could call, but have you talked to Verizon customer service lately... the cashiers at [name any store] dish better advice. I was hoping to save a headache and a 45 minute phone call!! haha... thanks, though!

OPX is an off premise extension of an existing dial tone line. Since Verizon isn’t providing the dial tone, I doubt very seriously if you could get an OPX. Maybe they could supply you with a designed circuit or a dry copper pair. My guess is that it won’t be cheap. Again, I’d start with Verizon. How about wireless? You didn’t give a distance and say if it’s line of sight.

An off-premise extension is still a valid service… I can not speak directly to what Verizon will or won’t do, but I still see occasional orders for them from two LECs. It’s still a valid and tariffed service.

It's a tariffed service, but as $UNPRONOUNCEABLE points out, it's not going to help the OP.

I would recommend wifi with an AP Client in the building across the street; hang your extra station(s) on that.

I would venture to guess that if you are able to get an OPX from Verizon, that you will be charged some sort of monthly cable rent based on cable footage from point A to point B.

westonjoe,

We still use OPX's for some of our customers around here.
But you will need to call Verizon and see if they offer the service in your area. Not all carriers do.
And yeah, they can get pricey. There is usually a base monthly then so much a foot.

Just so everyone's clear, the OPX *I* am accustomed to hearing about is a line appearance at a street address other than the primary service address, which is multipled to a CO line, but almost never at the customer prem; it's commonly done at a cross-box (if local) or on the MDF with completely separately assigned pairs.

This is why an OPX won't help you for extending non-ILEC dialtone, which is what I gathered the OP actually wants to do.

What he probably wants is an "alarm circuit", which, if he can get it, is dry point to point copper, built from one site directly to the other, or sometimes through the frame, depending on the telco.

Lots of telcos detariffed those, because they let customers run point to point DSL privately, which telcos hate.

I run plenty of non LEC or ILEC dialtones across OPXs. They are conditioned circuits and I run analog station dialtone across them and have for 20 plus years. If he just wants an extension across the street and he has the right CPE equipment he could easily have an extension in his remote location. Hence the name Off Premise Extension.