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Hi August.

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

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

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

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

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

 AA> I would assume that there is still plenty of above-ground poles
 AA> 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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