{"id":89815,"date":"2025-08-23T10:53:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T10:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/89815\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T10:53:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T10:53:17","slug":"uncertainty-over-what-replaces-copper-for-rural-households","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/89815\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncertainty over what replaces copper for rural households"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Federated Farmers says letting\u00a0Chorus\u00a0remove the copper network could leave rural people with uncertainty as to where to go for a phone or internet connection.<\/p>\n<p>The Commerce Commission yesterday recommended to the Government that access to the copper network be deregulated.<\/p>\n<p>If the Minister agrees, that will allow Chorus to start removing the copper network, which the company expects to do by 2030.<\/p>\n<p>Regulation of access to the network was put in place 20 years ago, and the Commerce Commission&#8217;s Telecommunications Commissioner Tristan Gilbertson says there are now less than a third of rural customers using it.<\/p>\n<p>He says most now have access to more than three alternative technologies like satellite broadband or wireless internet providers.<\/p>\n<p>But with some 100,000\u00a0homes and businesses still using the copper network, Federated Farmers telecommunications spokesperson Mark Hooper says the removal of copper leaves a lot of people unsure as to what to move to.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/4MQFABU_copyright_image_235815\" width=\"1050\" height=\"592\" alt=\"No caption\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nPhoto: Chorus<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Federated Farmers says letting\u00a0Chorus\u00a0remove the copper network could leave rural people with uncertainty as to where to go&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89816,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[64,1590,63,1589,237,44,1591,1588,1586,1587,105],"class_list":["post-89815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-internet","tag-au","tag-audio","tag-australia","tag-current-affairs","tag-internet","tag-news","tag-podcasts","tag-public-radio","tag-radio-new-zealand","tag-rnz","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}