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#289952 11-Oct-2021 20:04
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Based on the maps at gis.geek, it seems like there's a pretty significant quantity of copper services that are essentially POTS only. With Spark withdrawing POTS services, would these runs be effective, despite the fact Chorus is unable to remove the copper from many of these runs (as many of them are rural without fibre access), would this potentially lead to a situation where Chorus is still forced to maintain the copper despite there being no services accessible through it? Spark's website is rather vague on whether there will be any copper services going forward outside of fibre areas.


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  #2793485 11-Oct-2021 21:19
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My understanding in situations where copper is the ONLY solution, Chorus will keep maintaining the network and the NEAX being removed will already be swapped out to CCN/BBIP before the NEAX removal.
The POTS/NEAX removal by Spark is separate from the Chorus copper removal. I'm also almost certain that its written into the withdrawal code that there must be an alternate before any copper uplift happens.

 

When finally all copper services are removed from a cabinet however, then Chorus will jump at the chance to remove some more copper but again, that's after an alternate is available.
In your example of a rural area (no fibre) then there will still be xDSL and voice services active, and so still reason to keep copper running and Chorus will keep fixing them as needed.

 

In short yes, Spark and multiple others will continue to provide copper services in areas that are not fibre fed. It just wont be POTS anymore. There was a good thread about it on here years ago explaining the change but I cant find it right now sorry.





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