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The cost of delivering the last "100Meters" is significantly less if you can do so with mm-wave technology than with fiber. Hence more profit. Hopefully if it w
by zw123456 10y ago
The cost of delivering the last "100Meters" is significantly less if you can do so with mm-wave technology than with fiber. Hence more profit. Hopefully if it works well, more carriers will use it which will make it more lucrative for more providers to use that approach and spread BB farther and wider. At least, that is the idea.
- ksec 10y agoOn the subject of last Mile, I really wish the last mile or inhouse / building / last tiny bit right to your socket is twisted copper Ethernet CAT6 / 8 cable. Why put yet another ONT in my flat / property when all Router has an Ethernet Rj45 Port. Or we need to work on a standard Optical Fibre Solution to be placed in all Router.
- brians 10y agoCouple reasons. Best reason, the fiber has many Gbps extra capacity for Ultra-HD with augmented smellovision. Other reason, if Verizon is delivering twisted pair, the FCC rises from the demarc in a cloud of brimstone and invokes its ancient pacts.
- kalleboo 10y agoI'm happy to have the ONU in my apartment where I can replace it instead of in some telco cabinet where it will take a week for a tech to come out and make repairs