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Reported Oct 10, 2026Quickanomics write-up updated Oct 11, 2026, version 32 min read
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The completed copper removal creates room for Flow’s planned underground fibre work.
Flow has completed removal of its legacy underground copper network, creating space for fibre infrastructure, according to Radio Jamaica’s October 10 report.
The distinction between the old and new network matters. The completed work concerns redundant underground copper. It creates capacity for the company to relocate more fibre, but the account does not establish that all aerial fibre has already been moved below ground.
This is an infrastructure update rather than an announcement of new consumer prices, subscription plans or a quantified increase in service speed. None of those changes is reported.
Flow vice-president and general manager Stephen Price said the removal would allow more vulnerable aerial fibre to be placed underground. He presented it as part of broader network resilience work addressing disasters and criminal damage.
The proposed route change is the mechanism behind that objective: the fibre would occupy underground space instead of remaining exposed along aerial routes. Price’s explanation states what the company intends to achieve, while the report provides no measured outage results demonstrating the effect.
No project cost, remaining migration deadline or quantified outage reduction is supplied in the brief account. Those omissions limit the scope of the update. Copper removal is complete; the scale, timing and measured service consequences of the further fibre relocation remain unspecified.
Reports from the same original source are not independent confirmation.
Radio Jamaica reports on October 10 that Flow completed removal of its legacy underground copper network, freeing space for fibre infrastructure.
Radio Jamaica reports on October 10 that Flow completed removal of its legacy underground copper network, freeing space for fibre infrastructure.Radio Jamaica News: Flow completes removal of its legacy copper network
Flow vice-president and general manager Stephen Price said the removal would allow more vulnerable aerial fibre to be moved underground as part of wider network resilience work against disasters and criminal damage; the report gives no cost, migration deadline or measured outage reduction.
Flow vice-president and general manager Stephen Price said the removal would allow more vulnerable aerial fibre to be moved underground as part of wider network resilience work against disasters and criminal damage; the report gives no cost, migration deadline or measured outage reduction.Radio Jamaica News: Flow completes removal of its legacy copper network
No independent outage-performance evidence or completed schedule for all intended fibre work is supplied.
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