What he said was that there would be (some) new servers where old characters could not be transferred, fresh start servers.

They did not say old characters cannot be transferred to new servers at all, do you really think they are going to make the change to regional servers and then lock all 1.0 characters to Japanese servers (or randomly assign old servers to new regions).

My guess is there will be no old servers at all, but we'll see when phase 3 opens and NDA is lifted.