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Originally Posted by Ignitionnet
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?[COLOR="Silver"]
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Pioneering for this country, as up until now only BT (or Kingston) could deploy overhead.
VM does have some overhead trunk fibre ontop of electricity pylons, but this is different.
Even if it is HFC as long as it offers an alternative to adsl, must be a good thing.
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Originally Posted by Ignitionnet
Of course. They'd be stringing real fibre not 'fibre optic broadband' too 
It's a good move from Virgin to pre-empt it and try and increase their coverage though, as the UK gets more competitive at the higher end they are inevitably going to get increased competition in current areas and will be getting their backsides soundly handed to them by FTTP/H networks soon in some areas. |
Not sure, it's a bit sketchy, even to me.
VM have at least 4no. large capacity trunk fibre cables that pass through Woolhampton, just no Access Network.
So it's entirely feasible to come off the trunk fibre, build a nodal cab and feed the homes from the nodal cab via the BT Access Infrastructure.
It's not clear whether they'd be using BT poles or erecting their own. It's entirely feasible to ustilise BT Access duct and erect their own poles.
It would still be massively cheaper than digging up everywhere to lay duct.
It's very interesting, be good to see how it develops.