[LinuxBender]

I should have restricted that statement to include the United States of America. PSTN's are still utilized, deployed and actively sold in most of the US. As a side note I recently tried to get a telco to remove a phone line and two poles and they refused to do it. Their excuse was that they might one day run fiber over it despite there already being a fiber network here. I hope they do as my fiber ISP really does need a competitor. If they really do run the fiber over those poles vs burying it that would be amusing.

To your point I am sure some day the US will stop selling access to the PSTN but some old systems will hold on for dear life, government contracts and all. Governments are kindof slow to migrate to newer things.

[Kon-Peki]

> As a side note I recently tried to get a telco to remove a phone line and two poles and they refused to do it.

You need to align their incentives with yours: wait until it gets windy out, knock the poles down, and demand that they come fix it.

[LinuxBender]

I've been secretly hoping an over-sized big rig would take them out but I would not want anyone to get hurt. They are the only poles within a few miles and are an eye-sore.