Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:

> 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.

May be I am understanding something different under POTS than you guys.

Plain old telephone service, or plain ordinary telephone system, is a
retronym for voice-grade telephone service employing analog signal
transmission over copper loops (Wikipedia)

Notice "analog signal".
Even if you have copper the last 50m or 3km - it does not mean it is POTS on
it.
It could be somewhere still a POTS - I never bothered to find out which
operators are using what switching technology. I worked with operators in
12 EU countries with 18mil+ subscribers and last 2 (analog) DMS100 were
decommissioned 5y ago. Most probably it is ISDN that you get.

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