[Gllug] To LLU or Not to LLU?

[t.clarke]

Maybe I mis-read,  but I find it hard to believe that the infrastructure costs
for fibre to the home are similar to those for copper.

Copper requires a cheap terminator (master socket) in the subscribers premises.

We have fibre into our premises here and it has a rather more expensive mains-
powered NTU-type gizmo mounted on the wall.  Terminating the fibre into the
device was from memory quite a lengthy and skilled process process compared to
screwing a pair of wires into a faceplate connector.  I have no idea how much
fibre costs per Km compared to a copper pair, but I would imagine it to be
somewhat more expensive.  Then there is the additional problem of routing the
fibre to flats, shared premises etc etc - not to mention the costs of repairing
breaks.


Tim
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