I have dealt with many engineering projects were the underground copper was labeled abandoned or when aerial copper was abandoned but used to over lash fiber [fiber now owned by ATT]. If this company exits copper in 2029 [in 3 years], who will be responsible for removing all the abandoned plant? In the current market, it cost a huge amount of money to hire contractors, engineer out the plan, obtain the permits and remove. Cities are not going to allow Bell System facilities to exist on poles, in people's property, in alleys or on street corners rotting away. Will this be discussed in the Copper meeting? Cannot just walk away from this.
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@cv obviously you’re management. No clue what the techs have done to save your worthless as--s. You don’t own the company. If they want it to fail let it. Get over yourself
The clowns with no experience have spoken. Keep doing the failed strategy of slowing line and revenue loss by putting more lipstick on the pig, don't invest in fiber, waste time and money on second rate inferior solutions and then wonder why it doesn't work. Surprise surprise surprise.
Who cares. Seriously
Even for a company that's in good financial shape it's not worth their time to "wreck out" the old copper, so take Lumen with 17B in debt-there's your answer-likely not going to happen at least anytime soon.
Lumen will put up signs and invite every copper thieves to the Free Copper!!
Once you get beyond your 2nd level,management is clueless to what is really out there.