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Originally Posted by qasdfdsaq
They don't have to pay either TalkTalk or BT Wholesale, after all, the point of putting their own equipment in exchanges was to bypass exactly that. Vodafone are doing the same now, going straight to the Openreach handover point so they can deliver IPTV have to pay BT Wholesale zilch. You'd still have to pay OR line rental but as that's just a dumb ethernet pipe VM wouldn't have to pay BT for any for multicast or data usage.
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Vodafone bought Cable and Wireless. Cable and Wireless had a presence in 936 exchanges and have sold LLU wholesale to parties including Virgin.
Give the initial project was canned it's reasonable to assume another VM unbundling project isn't likely.
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Originally Posted by MrIca
Yeah I didn't give a figure! Of course I know about the underground network, I work on it! I just used the vague term "plenty" which is correct. I come across a fair bit of overhead fibre. I've seen a lot of mobile masts fed with overhead fibre, businesses too.
Why do you need examples?! You'll just have to trust me I'm afraid.
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Pretty sure you were responding to a comment that mentioned 'telegraph wires' though.