Australia's Telstra Requires Fibre Customers To Use Copper Telephone

daria42 writes "Progress is happening rapidly in Australia, with the country's government continuing to roll out a nation-wide fibre network. However, the country's major telco Telstra doesn't appear to have quite gotten the message. Releasing its first National Broadband Network fibre broadband plans today, the telco stipulated that fibre customers will still be forced to make phone calls over the telco's existing copper network. Yup, that's right — fibre to people's houses, but phone calls over the copper network. Progress."

Re:Could make sense

[Capsaicin]

If ice storm knock down the power line, it will knock down the phone line too.

It just goes to show the cavalier attitude of the Labor government that they haven't adequately planned for vast tracts of Australia being taken out by ice storms.

Re:Could make sense

[zippthorne]

Ghostbusters.

Re:Could make sense

[foniksonik]

The other nuts who have backup phones!

That's their plan. They'll be the only ones able to coordinate their stockpiles of food, water and ammunition. Well other than the military, police and emergency services. They'll be kings for a week at least!