[Gllug] To LLU or Not to LLU?

[Peter Corlett]

On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 09:56:47AM +0000, Christopher Hunter wrote:
[...]
> I have fibre to my house in Finland, and can get 1000 Mb/s, and there's
> more bandwidth available for other services.

And you pay rather high taxes in Finland to pay for it. I like beer and
don't really want to find myself in a position where I can't afford it in
quantity.

[...]
> There was a national plan to fibre the whole place back in the early 90s,
> but it was cancelled by this clueless and corrupt "government". It would
> have been done out of the "public purse" and telecoms operators would have
> rented space on it.

The "public purse" is merely a euphemism for taxpayers. Nearly two decades
on, there doesn't seem to be any compelling reason to fibre up the country
given we seem to be doing just fine over copper. It's just an expensive
folly, so it would have been sensible to can it.

Incidentally, there are quite a few properties who have fibre telephone
service from BT. In a rather amusing twist of irony, there wasn't enough
bandwidth available on the fibre link, and anybody who wanted broadband had
to wait for BT to roll out a parallel copper network in the area.

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