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Originally Posted by Ignitionnet

Your point falls down as it begs the obvious question of asking why HK has extensive FTTP while our cities' CBDs and the MDUs within them do not?

The answer is of course that we have a bit of a socialist edge around our broadband, where cities subsidise rural areas and everyone should get the same products.

Well if you want to get really pernickety about "why our broadband sucks", yes some part of it is caused by social and political factors, but comparing our urban MDUs with that of Hong Kong would still be entirely apples to oranges even if we ignore politics simply because of the geographical economics.

But the matter is somewhat obfuscated by you using the term "MDU". Why do our MDUs have less FTTP? Sure, we have MDUs. Sure, HK has MDUs. Except that evades the difference of their MDUs being five times bigger and three times more densely populated.

How many obscenely high density housing estates like this do you see in Britain? In Hong Kong, practically the entire population lives in them. A third of Bromley, the biggest borough in London, would fit in a single housing estate in HK.

As for our CBDs, I wouldn't call them lacking either, given the prevalence of business fibre products and willy-waving 450Mbps 4G mobile services fed by 10Gbps backhauled masts. Sure, these aren't consumer FTTH services but why on earth would you be bothered about consumer FTTH services in a CBD?

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Originally Posted by Ignitionnet

I said it was impractical. It's a penis enlarger on the part of the telco.

Could say the same of 300Mbps to 1Gbps services here.