Under previous owners, our local cable system started building a FTTC system
at least fifteen years ago throughout the city. We get generally good
service everywhere and the only complaint I ever hear is cost for cable.
Oddly, landlinie phone is cheaper and internet is competitive, especially as
it is generally faster and more reliable than AT&T.
AT&T is slow to arrive, and don't know anyone that has it.
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From: Ken Norton
Sent: Monday, March 02, 2015 11:13 AM
To: Olympus Camera Discussion
Subject: Re: [OM] OT: wiring a Cat 5 cable to a wall plate
What BT/Openreach are widely rolling out is FTTC (Fibre To The Cabinet)
with copper for the final link to the premises (running VDSL IIRC). You'll
get a new street cabinet alongside the old one and they'll switch
subscribers as they sign-up. I was connected last month and now have
40Mb/s downstream and 10Mb/s upstream. Only 5x better down but 10x better
up. There's another option with double those speeds but for more £ than I
wanted to pay.
Yes, this is the way of accomplishing it that doesn't require putting
in FTTH (Fibre to the Home). As long as I can keep the distances
reasonable from the serving device to the home, we have tremendous
speed growth potential. We're trialing stuff that gives us 100Mb over
twisted copper-pair. That'll address bandwidth needs for five or six
years and then the next generation of technology should push that to
1Gb, which is already in the lab. Everybody thinks that fibre is what
is required to get good speeds, and that's not necessarily true.
Copper is not speed limited, it's distance limited.
To do a complete copper replacement with fiber in a community is not
cost-effective. In an urban setting, it costs about $250000 USD per
mile of residential buildout to just replace the copper with fiber,
not including any equipment. This usually averages out to about $10000
per house. We amortize these in-ground assets over a 20 year period,
so that's $500 per year per house. That's $42 per month without even
figuring in TVM. I can keep maintaining what we have for under $10 per
month.
Do you think everybody is willing to pay $32 per month more JUST so
they can have a perceived advantage of FTTH?
If we're talking about greenfield installation, yes, it makes sense to
put fiber in, but to rebuild entire cities and countryside? No. That
6000-pair cable installed in 1963 will still be in service in 2063.
AG
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