XPost: nz.comp   
   From: YourName@YourISP.com   
      
   On 2025-12-16 22:27:08 +0000, ~misfit~ said:   
   > On 16/12/2025 10:50 am, Your Name wrote:   
   >> On 2025-12-15 07:47:54 +0000, Lawrence D´Oliveiro said:   
   >>> 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.   
   >>   
   >> "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.   
   >>   
   > There are still a lot pf rural people using ADSL / VDSL who need the copper.   
      
   Not for much longer. The plan is to "retire" the entire copper line   
   network by 2030. Rural people will have to switch to some other, more   
   expensive, connection type.   
      
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