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Originally Posted by cheap
Ask the Telco's why they spent "their" money doing this, I was their decision not mine.
Ask Jeff Kennett and Andrew Peacock what they think of analogue phones.
Dumb business decision.
Yes
Not necessary, making money/profit (and by default staying in business) is the key. Old technology doesn't mean it won’t make money, for example, prostitutes make money selling "old" wares
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The reason why the 100% Government owned Telecom Australia spent $bazillions on the DMO is that before this we had analog lines on poles.
Less than 10% of houses had telephones.
Australia has one of the least dense population in the developed world (you are obviously excepted) and in order to connect all of the new customers remote integrated multplexers were installed in the middle of new sites with a bearer, usually fibre, back to a central exchange.
This allowed an extremely low cost way of attaching thousands of services on quickly.
Unfortunately the DSL bit of ADSL is not very fibre friendly and while a 2Mb E1 could handle 30+ concurrent vioce connections it is still only 2Mb so highspeed data was difficult.
DMO was the first NBN which was 100% Government and the reason why there were affordable phones in the 80s.