I'm pretty sure Verizon is doing similar things with their copper infrastructure on the East Coast – they've more or less abandoned it in favor of fiber in cert

I'm pretty sure Verizon is doing similar things with their copper infrastructure on the East Coast – they've more or less abandoned it in favor of fiber in certain regions. For anyone curious, Camp Seco is not a particularly remote part of California but it is pretty sparsely populated. It's about an hour outside of Sacramento and Stockton according to Google maps. I wonder if AT&T will ever get the bright idea to try this in a more populated area (like the Bay Area). The condo I'm in now has underground utilities. Sonic's abandoned DSL and their rebranded AT&T fiber. If they ever roll out fiber, the HOA's on the hook to trench from the street and to each of the buildings because Sonic cannot / will not use another utility's conduit. The phone wiring predates twisted pair, and I'm betting the coax is equally antique. High speed internet? Yeah, right.