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Originally Posted by Kushan
I think BT's fibre is now as much fibre as Virgin's, i.e. hybrid. The difference ultimately being that Virgin's last mile is shielded coax, whereas BT's is unshielded (or less-shielded, I suppose) copper. The technologies in use, of course, are completely different.
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I think, Kush, that's on over-simplification. Fibre is semantically fibre. It's what's done with it that's the difference.
The FTTC fibre node has a strict limit (AFAIK) of 288 users. A VM optical node might well have twice as many.