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Originally Posted by Skie
When the cost of replacing/maintaining coax kit gets high enough to make replacing it all with fibre viable. Probably a long way off, but the build costs should be fairly reasonable considering the time consuming and expensive civils are mostly done already, just need a lot of men with strong arms to pull cables!
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... and fix trenches and ducting.
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Originally Posted by spiderplant
"Ever" is a long time, but at the moment coax has more than enough capacity. It's better to extend the network to new premises than rebuild to existing ones IMO.
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A possible threat to VM, and a reason for them to convert from coax to FTTP, is the fibre roll out by Vodafone-City Fibre, already underway in cities like Coventry. (37 cities by the end of 2024) They will be offering a symmetrical 900Mb in the £40-£50 range. Can Docsis 3.1 offer a symmetrical service, or at least something much better than 10:1?
I know Vodaphone aren't offering a TV service, but customers could do a combination of Vodaphone broadband / Sky TV, or sky might itself be interested in using the Vodaphone network, much as it is now interested in VM's network.