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Originally Posted by Sephiroth
My takeaways from the Register article are:
1 FTTH is coming via a pole strung solution
2 What tooke them so long?
3 Existing customers are none the wiser what'll happen to them
How easy is it to pull fibre undergound to the home in place of the current coax? I've no doubt that VM would recover the costs through an installation fee when moving to an approproate higher service tier.
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Its not just the coax drop to the customer that would be repalced though, its the entire distribution network in the streets all the way back to the cabinets and potentially even further back to MUX cabinets. Customers couldnt be expected to levy any of this cost as it would be in the 10's of Thousands of £.
FTTH was only ever talked about as a potential, its something thats being looked at but its a massive project. i dont think we will hear much more about pole distribution unless there is some changes to the regulation of aerial delivery in the UK.
What took them so long and continues to be a hindrance - BT.
Existing customers wont notice any difference if the service is delivered by HFC or FTTH, it will still be the same end product being delivered. FTTH is just marketing speak for now, it has no real benefit in the world when HFC still has running legs (DOCSIS 3, channel bonding, SDV etc etc). FTTH should be renamed FTTPR (Fibre To The Press Release) in my opinion.
