said by David:said by silbaco:Could have something to do with the availability of equipment. I imagine they have a wide array of equipment in the field to deliver their old DSL service and due to the lack of upgrades, some of that equipment could be getting hard to come by.
That has quite a bit to do with it, just in my office we used to have a old alcatel 1000 dslam we all learned on when DSL was deployed. They came and took that guy out last week out of the training room. It's being scrapped for repair parts for other DSLAMs needing repairs/cards and such. Where they have deployed IPDSL those DSLAMs are being turned down and become spare parts for repairs.
I also heard that the parts for the FITL systems are very hard to come by but AT&T just doesn't seem concerned with upgrading those systems. I wonder If they will just start shutting them down one by one and leave us without connectivity.