One of my family members had that job for a good while. What’s interesting is the phone companies did not keep great records of what’s copper and where it is, so a lot of it is likely to remain in place for a long time. Something else he has seen is thieves cutting fiber, thinking it is copper, and causing outages, although that is less frequent than it was years ago.
Comment on Geologists doubt Earth has the amount of copper needed to develop the entire world
r_deckard@lemmy.world 4 weeks agoThere’s a lot of copper pairs left underground. Many hundreds of thousands of kilometres of it. Use it as a pull-through for fibre-optic bundles, and everyone can have gigabit internet.
Seriously though, there’ll come a time when that underground obsolete copper will become economic to retrieve.
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ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
All kinds if copper are economic to achieve with enough crack