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California says AT&T can't shut down copper DSL network (www.lightreading.com)

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[–] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 2 years ago (1 child)

If they don't want to maintain the copper lines, they can always replace them with fiber.

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[–] jlh@lemmy.jlh.name 4 points 2 years ago

Not to mention, fiber is cheaper than copper at this point.

Telecoms are just lazy and don't want to string up new lines.

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