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Chrysalis · 15-11-2006, 04:50

Ofcoms recent analysis on alternaitves to copper indicates they arent going to be backing fibre to the home any time soon, fibre to the cabinet was the only one they "may" back but they indicated it offered no cost savings over copper, and cost savings is the only thing that would probably make the BT shareholders approve the change. I think the bigger clinger tho is how it will disrupt LLU, ofcom is a big fan of LLU been competitive, FTTC would mean LLU providers having to run their fibre to cabinets to install their dslams there which will be very uneconomical for them as they may only have half a dozen or so customers per cabinet.

15-11-2006, 04:50	#123
Chrysalis cf.mega poster Join Date: Sep 2003 Posts: 12,047	Re: A little inside information by an Employee. Ofcoms recent analysis on alternaitves to copper indicates they arent going to be backing fibre to the home any time soon, fibre to the cabinet was the only one they "may" back but they indicated it offered no cost savings over copper, and cost savings is the only thing that would probably make the BT shareholders approve the change. I think the bigger clinger tho is how it will disrupt LLU, ofcom is a big fan of LLU been competitive, FTTC would mean LLU providers having to run their fibre to cabinets to install their dslams there which will be very uneconomical for them as they may only have half a dozen or so customers per cabinet.