How on earth is this pioneering? The majority of cable networks in North America, Japan and other places are on poles, indeed the equipment is designed with pole mounting in mind.
Sheesh Neil Berkett could go to the bathroom and they'd call it 'pioneering'. If they were delivering fibre directly to peoples' homes rather than 'fibre optic' aka HFC I might be remotely interested as it is who really cares?
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I think because it will be fibre optic cables being used? or at least for part of the way? Doesn't give a definative answer in the press release... interesting though... as they do need to add to their current coverage.
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So what? There are tens of millions of 100% fibre connections running on poles and in the hundreds of millions of
cable connections on poles. This is a total non-event.
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I think what it means is that they use poles rather than digging up the road to deliver the co-ax cable to the house
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Thanks. So, ya, a total non-event. Virgin doing what cable companies have for decades.
The only interesting thing is that it's actually being done though this isn't surprising given the Digital Economy Bill and potentials for government subsidies.