XPost: nz.comp   
   From: YourName@YourISP.com   
      
   On 2025-12-15 22:51:19 +0000, Lawrence D´Oliveiro said:   
   > On Tue, 16 Dec 2025 10:50:01 +1300, Your Name wrote:   
   >> On 2025-12-15 07:47:54 +0000, Lawrence D´Oliveiro said:   
   >>>   
   >>> It is the physical copper cabling that is being retired.   
   >>   
   >> "Retired", but usually left in place in the case of underground lines.   
   >> Maybe they'll bother to pull it out whenever they have to dig holes for   
   >> some other reason, but I wouldn't bet on it.   
   >   
   > It’s worth money.   
      
   But not worth the expense of digging the holes to get at it. If they   
   have to dig a hole for another reason, then they might extract the   
   copper line at teh same time, but trying to pull it out is likely going   
   to break it anyway (depedning on teh method used to put it in at the   
   original time), so probably still not worth the effort.   
      
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