Flav wrote on Jan 20
th, 2022 at 3:02pm:
Here it depends...
First : Cable is dead. All the cable operators agregated into one telco or another and moved from cable to DSL/FTTH.
Interesting. What happened over here was all the cable TV switched over to fiber optics, which left behind a ton of old copper infrastructure. Terrible for delivering 5,000 channels in beautiful HD, but turned out to be fantastic for delivering broadband internet. So for example my house has our phone line and TV delivered via fiberoptic, but our internet is cable.
Flav wrote on Jan 20
th, 2022 at 3:02pm:
Second :
If you're in a FTTH covered area, only fiber will be offered. ( even for justa phone line ).
If you're in an area where there's no FTTH, then the default option is DSL.
If you have the bad luck of being more then 8km away from the DSLAM/Remote Subscriber Stage they they very very reluctantly give you an old fixed line. ( you you are lucky enough to find a saledroid that knows how to coax the system into giving one... because 10 years ago it was already difficult to get one, nowadays, it's technically impossible but there's always exceptions )
Edit : oh and when I write FTTH, I really mean Fiber to the Home... the Fiber to Ethernet Converter is inside the house/flat/whatever as near as possible to the triple play box, when the box doesn't have a built-in fiber interface.
I suspect DSL might still exist over in the more remote regions. Where I live happens to have fairly high population density without a ton of space between towns. I know of a major switching building about a mile from my home(about 1.61km for you freedom-haters), and another in the next town over; there's probably a dozen more I haven't seen.
Around here you can always tell a switching building pretty easy. First, the parking lot is ALWAYS in terrible condition, asphalt completely degraded and cracked everywhere, usually weeds growing up through it. They don't even man them full-time anymore so the lot is also usually empty. There will be a sign for the telco company - and next to it the faded remnants of three other signs from the last three telco companies that owned the building.
One of these days I'm going to bribe my way in and just have a gander at all the pretty switches.