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Originally Posted by jb66
Not quite the same. All houses have a phone line, it's easy to upgrade the lines to fttc. Having to dig up every road would cost billions
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Having to dig up the road to install a new cabinet, pay the copper line rental, along with the SLU fees, pay for backhaul to the exchange / PoP, etc, etc, isn't any better.
LGI haven't deployed this anywhere else and they make a big deal of their network being a USP. Deploying FTTC would completely do away with that USP. They would have to deploy the same VDSL 2 over the same 17a band plan that Openreach do with the same power masking, etc.
LGI canned VM's plan to use BT's FTTC network as they wanted to concentrate on the cable network. Be bizarre indeed to not just use BT's copper but also overbuild their FTTC overlay having stated a desire to concentrate on the cable network.
The only thing I can think of that VM may want to put into street cabinets is fibre nodes to go to an FTTLA architecture in their on-net areas. To deploy VDSL 2 off-net would seem to be nuts.
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I have actually thought of something that VM would use DSLAMs for - ultrafast FTTP services delivered over PON or Metro Ethernet.
Those I can understand - Comcast and Rogers in North America come to mind immediately.