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Originally Posted by Kushan

Hmm, not quite. The telephone does actually come through a separate, standard copper cable. If you look closely at the black cable entering your house from outside, you'll see the two separate cables that eventually split off.

HOWEVER, VoIP is on the horizon and we may even see it with this next hardware trial.

Thanks for putting right my omission, but this does not undermine my main point.

I was aware of the double cable entering my house. Does this double arrangement run all the way back to the street box or node or does the split from a single cable occur at the pavement connection?