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Re: Asda planning sale-and-leaseback to raise cash

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Originally Posted by Paul View Post
Most telephone exchanges are far too big for what they house since the end of the 1990's.
By then they had all moved over to System X, System Y etc, which takes up way less space than the old TXE4/TXE2/Crossbar/Strouger that they replced
I used to visit exchanges that had entire empty floors after conversion (and not small either).
and compared to a soft switch System X takes up a massive amount of room. When VM switches off its Voice network there's going to be a lot of room in their Headends.
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