From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Mon, 19 Jan 2026 09:54:15 +0100, Marc Haber wrote:   
      
   > The one thing that the fiber companies can to well is lying at the   
   > customer, for example sending sales people from door to door with   
   > the news that the residents MUST buy fiber because their DSL will be   
   > turned off and decommissioned "later this year" and that they will   
   > be without Internet if they don't sign up with the fiber company.   
      
   In our case that’s no lie. The copper network is being decommissioned,   
   region by region, and DSL along with it.   
      
   There is this stereotype of the Germans being well-organized; I can’t   
   help feeling that NZ has outdone them in this one instance, of   
   managing the transition to fibre. 😏   
      
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