[Gllug] To LLU or Not to LLU?

[James Hawtin]

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.  BT should have
> been forced to do this from the early 90s since it was obvious even
> back then that it would be needed.  They're still building new houses
> and putting in copper, which is just _crazy_.

And why should BT shareholders have to pay for this network? Yes its needed
but until resently the government want to regulate the price BT had to charge
for access. Screwing the long term investment. Now they can charge what they
like BT is moving ahead.

James
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