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by cptskippy 2034 days ago
They probably had to replace aging infrastructure. Telcos aren't laying copper anymore. Verizon caught flak for neglecting aging copper networks and wanting to upgrade everything to fiber.

A drawback of fiber is that it generally doesn't work during power outages where as copper does.
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toast0 2034 days ago
The VDSL2 remote terminal that services my house cuts off the second utility power does. So don't count on copper working. Although when the utility power outage was due to a downed line between me and the remote terminal, the DSL didn't drop.
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AuthorizedCust 2034 days ago
Not really. They mostly just threw it on the poles.
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cptskippy 2034 days ago
Bell South ran fiber all over metro Atlanta in the late 90s but never into neighborhoods and they never lit it up as far as I know.
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easton 2033 days ago
That’s wild, considering AT&T is now running fiber service everywhere. I’m surprised they wouldn’t use it for that, at this point they could provide service to Atlanta overnight.
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