On Wed, 23 Dec 2020 14:33:55 +0000
Chris Green  wrote:

> There's lots of POTS phones still here in the UK, at least the last
> few miles is still a copper (or if you're unlucky) an aluminium pair.

 When I had FTTH installed here the first thing they did (after
erecting a couple of poles) was run copper to the house with a POTS service
on it, then a week or so later another crew turned up and installed the
fibre. The POTS service is active but never used. It would make a lot more
sense if the fibre termination was powered by the 50V on the POTS line but
it's powered by being plugged into the mains.

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