Somewhat related but not really. Back in 2007 when I worked for a large ISP as a second line support technician for various services, ADSL was very much still in vogue. And the technology, over copper wire, had a max distance of where it would be stable. Some clients were on a special plan that tried to up this distance by a bit, maybe 2-3 more km but really it was still quite unreliable but still usable for browsing the internet, generally.
But during the summer I received a call from a client that had been unable to use his IPTV service during the day for almost a month without hickups and disturbances and his internet was slow as a glacier from time to time and as I was measuring the equipment, packet loss and all the usual stuff it struck me that he was very far away from his nearest telephone station. After some back and forth with a technician and lots of measuring we came to the conclusion that since it was so hot out during that summer the line just expanded over to a distance that was just far away enough that the line would become unstable during daytime when it became hotter outside.
We could not really do anything to help him. I do not miss the copper net.
Typically they wouldn't do these jobs, the copper net was already on it's way out by that time in favor of fiber optics and the entire landline system was on maintenance at that point.
I left shortly after and these days, now they have removed almost all of it already.
But during the summer I received a call from a client that had been unable to use his IPTV service during the day for almost a month without hickups and disturbances and his internet was slow as a glacier from time to time and as I was measuring the equipment, packet loss and all the usual stuff it struck me that he was very far away from his nearest telephone station. After some back and forth with a technician and lots of measuring we came to the conclusion that since it was so hot out during that summer the line just expanded over to a distance that was just far away enough that the line would become unstable during daytime when it became hotter outside.
We could not really do anything to help him. I do not miss the copper net.