Not sure what is going on with the old copper network.
We had NBN connected 30 months (2.5 years) ago. At the time, we were told very clearly and unambiguously that we had 18 months to change to NBN Fibre to the premises and then the copper network would be decommissioned. No ifs, buts or maybes and definitely no time extensions.
Two weeks ago, we had an NBN crew spend two days working on the old copper cable riser / junction box on our side boundary. It was leaning to one side and in a very sad and unloved state, but now sits proudly on a new concrete mount and looks pristine. There is no fibre infrastructure passing through it at all - I know the locations of the fibre multiports and I have seen inside the riser for the copper cable. It definitely has no fibre in it.
There is a large public utility site across the road from us. Maybe they have some legacy system that absolutely must have copper, but this riser is about 20m from the road - up our neighbours' private driveway and was built about 30 years after the industrial site was constructed across the road. It's really strange.
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