XPost: nz.comp   
   From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Mon, 15 Dec 2025 15:04:46 +1300, David Goodwin wrote:   
      
   > The plain old telephone system has suffered the same fate - too few   
   > paying customers to cover the cost of upgrading and maintaining all the   
   > telephone exchanges, so its all being switched off.   
      
   I still have landline POTS service. The difference is it’s now over fibre.   
   It is the physical copper cabling that is being retired.   
      
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