XPost: nz.comp   
   From: shaun.at.pukekohe@gmail.com   
      
   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.   
      
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