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Old 11-03-2010, 12:10   #7
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Re: Virgin Media to Trial Ultrafast Broadband over Telegraph Poles

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Originally Posted by Ignitionnet View Post
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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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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Thanks. So, ya, a total non-event. Virgin doing what cable companies have for decades.
Didn't the goverment insist that cable tv had to go underground back in the 90's?
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