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    From Tommi Koivula@2:221/360 to August Abolins on Mon May 24 19:31:30 2021
    * Replying to a msg in fidotest (fidotest)

    Hi August.

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

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

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

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

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

    I would assume that there is still plenty of above-ground poles
    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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  • From August Abolins@1:396/45.29 to Tommi Koivula on Mon May 24 14:09:00 2021
    Hello Tommi Koivula!

    ** On Monday 24.05.21 - 19:31, Tommi Koivula wrote to August Abolins:

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

    I just HAD about 100m of replacement/new phone wire strung up
    from the roadside to the pole on my property! :D

    From the pole, everything goes underground for about 50m to the
    house.


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

    Installing underground creates its own problems.. especially
    when things called rocks get in the way.


    But then it is storm proof.

    Water damage could be a slow long-term concern though. Every
    spring, a lot of people complain about buzzing and crackling
    noises on their phone lines. I still have constant buzz/crackle
    on my POTS lines right now.

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    ../|ug

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