[Gllug] To LLU or Not to LLU?

[Christopher Hunter]

On Fri, 2009-03-27 at 13:34 +0000, Peter Corlett wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 12:45:13PM +0000, Richard Jones wrote:
> [...]
> > Unless there's been some recent changes in the laws of physics that I
> > didn't hear about, copper is limited to not much more than we can get at
> > the moment. You need fibre to the home (or at least to the streetbox) to
> > get into the gigabit range of bandwidth.
> 
> Could you explain to this bear of little brain why a residential property
> requires gigabit Internet access, and how the killer app that requires this
> expects to cover the cost of building-out all the infrastructure and ongoing
> maintenance?

For exactly the same reason that Bill Gates believed that 64 k "is
enough memory for anyone"!  The infrastructure costs are similar to
those for copper, by the way.

C.

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