Re: Phasing out of copper

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.