[Gllug] To LLU or Not to LLU?

[Andrew Farnsworth]

On Fri Mar 27  9:34 , Peter Corlett <abuse at cabal.org.uk> sent:

>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?

According to BT, they very much want to move to a fiber network, at least to the
cabinet, as their maintenance costs on their copper network are very very very
high due to its age.  Moving to Fiber will significantly reduce their maintenance
costs, at least for the forseable future.

Andy
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