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Copper is actually an EOL product in DTAG's network development policy. And for OPAL, it would be typical that the offered product then (significantly!) lagged behind the speed of the feeder fiber - so much so that it emulated a retro-DSL ;-)

As I said, I believe that the copper network has existed there for a longer time than it has been classified as an EOL product. The development plan is from 2006.

2006 was about ten years before POTS was classified as EOL. Back then, people still accessed the Internet via the telephone network; now it is the other way around, and even at DTAG, local network boundaries have become virtual. Customers are connected in the simplest way, even if that leads via a TAL rented from a competitor. Unfortunately, I know my Pappenheimers too well not to expect absolutely everything from them - and the most incredible thing first ;-)

I can gladly inquire about that, but as mentioned, the order explicitly refers to copper technology from Telekom. And the other provider installs FTTH, where the fiber optic cable goes directly into the utility room. In the house from 2020, we also had the option to do it that way. We declined because they wanted €700 for their antique cable. :D

A sales employee from Telekom explicitly advised us to definitely apply for fiber optic with the competitor and have it installed in the house, so that after 2 years or as soon as it is available to other providers, we can switch. Reason: Telekom is not installing fiber optic for us now and if we want that, we have to switch to Deutsche Glasfaser now. Telekom only provides copper lines for us. I have even seen that myself because during digging, it was cut off by the power supplier and the neighboring house had no phone for a long time until the team commissioned by Telekom finally came.

As I said, I believe the copper network has existed there for longer than it has been classified as an EOL product. The development plan dates from 2006.

but the order explicitly mentions copper technology, as I said,

When the development area was connected in 2006, there was still copper from the local exchange in the star-shaped network to the cable distributor at your nearest intersection. Then DSL came, and when the death of ISDN was decided, vectoring was added as well, and every member of the Bundestag babbled about bringing their constituency onto the data highway. Meanwhile, a DSLAM three times as wide stands at the site of the former KVz, and instead of a star-shaped and hierarchical telephone local network, there is a meshing of these cabinets at the "last mile" network level, which bottleneck the triple-play internet into a variety of small bottles, down to POTS for grandma’s rotary phone. So the "copper network" only exists on the last mile. It is reached via fiber optics, and for competition law reasons, sometimes over fiber cables from competitors. Telekom then has no choice but to essentially transfer the internet from foreign fiber to its own copper, formerly known as OPAL. Alternatively, they can only implement this in your laundry room, “customer-side,” actually coming out to you on copper, but there arriving there on a fiber optic line from the competitor. And when this fiber optic line is to be reserved at the same time by the fiber concessionaire of the development area for themselves and for Telekom, the described, figuratively speaking, "interrupt conflict" arises due to the dispute between your two orders. Redundancy fails here because of politics; the difference between competition policy and competition is similar to that between party friend and friend. So I see two possible scenarios here: either it can (which especially requires rare free ports) actually come from the gray “I stand here for fast internet” box on copper into your basement – then I would be wrong; or (to my knowledge unfortunately more likely) the copper connection “would arise” only at your house entry of a fiber optic cable chartered from the competitor (and my fear of self-blockade would come true). Sounds complicated and unfortunately is (unnecessarily) even more so. And with that, goodbye for a while, I will hardly find time to visit the forum for about a week.

And did anyone call back?