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Old 21-08-2009, 20:32   #3356
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)

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Originally Posted by Andrewcrawford23 View Post
IF you dnt know why a fibre connection is better i think your in the wrong business
Actually I used to work in fibre networking. At a world-beating 50Mbps.

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Why fibre because techincally is infite capacity,
Well it's certainly high, but you need to be able to source and consume the data at that speed. And that's the problem. There aren't the applications to use it.

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has a lot of otehr benefits that virign could use apart form broadband and tv
Such as?

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but i dnt see it happening for at least 10-20 years
On this we agree. No-one would lay cable in bulk these days, but there's plenty of life in the old dog yet.


ps. How's the search going?
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