[176456] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Phasing out of copper
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Cameron Daniel)
Sat Nov 29 19:05:14 2014
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Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2014 10:05:05 +1000
From: Cameron Daniel <cdaniel@nurve.com.au>
To: =?UTF-8?Q?M=C3=A5ns_Nilsson?= <mansaxel@besserwisser.org>
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Cc: Nanog@nanog.org
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On 2014-11-30 9:19 am, Måns Nilsson wrote:
> Maintaining copper plant is expensive. It will be retired as soon as
> buy-in on FTTH is high enough. Telia Sonera is doing it in Sweden,
> so the trend is global. (OTOH, in Sweden, young people moving out from
> their parents, if they can find somewhere to rent, usually only get a
> fixed connection for Internet access. Telephony is all mobile.)
This is pretty common in other countries as well. At a $JOB-1 in
Australia all our residential DSL services were provided over ULLs and
came with a dial tone provided by us but only a tiny fraction of active
lines ever made or received a call.
