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Maintenance fees are likely to be high, especially considering that the companies are required to keep their copper lines maintained until no customers want cop
by ehead 9y ago
Maintenance fees are likely to be high, especially considering that the companies are required to keep their copper lines maintained until no customers want copper service anymore. In rural areas, this could mean keeping miles and miles of line maintained for a single customer.
Selling the copper from the wires also could be quite lucrative.
- jessaustin 9y agoThere's a creek on my farm that has several of those thick 25-pair cables running for hundreds of feet, mostly buried below gravel but visible occasionally. None of it is hooked up, since some genius decided that it was bad to run expensive cable through constantly changing environments like creeks. If the copper were that valuable, wouldn't the phone company have pulled these up by now?