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Hi August.

23 May 21 20:45:00, you wrote to me:

I let ISDN go about 15 years ago. It was in operation in
parallel with ADSL for some years, but there was no point
paying it for nothing. No more modem callers, and voice
calls went to GSM.

The dollar is the bottom line, both for distribution as well as
for the end-user. If those wires are constantly in need of
reapir, then any opportunity to do away with them sounds
practical.

There were about 5 kilometers of old telephone wire to my house, but ADSL 10/1 was working perfect. Now it is gone. :(

And just few weeks ago the local telephone company
dismantled the phone wires here.

I would assume that there is still plenty of above-ground poles
to distribute electricity?

Yes, the poles still exist. But there is demand from our government that power cables should be put underground. And it costs money.

But then it is storm proof.

'Tommi

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Hello Tommi Koivula!

** On Monday 24.05.21 - 19:31, Tommi Koivula wrote to August Abolins:

There were about 5 kilometers of old telephone wire to my
house, but ADSL 10/1 was working perfect. Now it is gone.
:(

I just HAD about 100m of replacement/new phone wire strung up
from the roadside to the pole on my property! :D

From the pole, everything goes underground for about 50m to the
house.

I would assume that there is still plenty of above-ground
poles to distribute electricity?

Yes, the poles still exist. But there is demand from our
government that power cables should be put underground.
And it costs money.

Installing underground creates its own problems.. especially
when things called rocks get in the way.

But then it is storm proof.

Water damage could be a slow long-term concern though. Every
spring, a lot of people complain about buzzing and crackling
noises on their phone lines. I still have constant buzz/crackle
on my POTS lines right now.

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