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It can be all of the above! Usually, however, it’s that we started a system earlier, or it has survived longer, for any number of various reasons, and has never needed to be fully replaced.

Same way that a country that never had anything before now won’t run copper telephone wires, and instead go directly to fiber backboned wireless.



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