A telephone company retiring its copper network has a problem most of its customers never see. The ordinary lines are straightforward to move onto fibre. The difficult ones are the lines nobody dials: the emergency phone in an elevator, the communicator wired into a fire alarm panel, the call box at a loading door. Those connections carry obligations under Canadian safety codes, and a carrier cannot simply switch them off and leave the building …
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