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I've never heard this part either: "What is quite astonishing is that a very similar thing happened in the United States. The US, UK and Japan were leading the

I've never heard this part either: "What is quite astonishing is that a very similar thing happened in the United States. The US, UK and Japan were leading the world. In the US, a judge was appointed by Congress to break up AT&T. And so AT&T became things like BellSouth and at that point, political decisions were made that crippled the roll out of optical fibre across the rest of the western world, because the rest of the countries just followed like sheep."

ricardobayes 5y ago
Once we got a quote for getting fibre at an address that is about 500 meters away from the Googleplex in Mountain View. Ultimately it was more cost effective to set up a FedEx schedule to mail SSD's across the globe.
- 30944836 5y ago
  Your quote might have been “fake” and intended to convince you that they offer fiber to your address when they actually don’t. I went through this with Comcast in San Jose. Requested the service, weeks of run arounds and “we lost your ticket I’ll make a new one” followed by increasingly ludicrous quotes starting at $500 and then going up to $20000(!). All when the map on their site showed a trunk in my neighborhood. Eventually I started playing along just for a laugh, until they finally fessed up and said they don’t offer fiber in my neighborhood at all. Some sort of fraud? I dunno.
  - bombcar 5y ago
    The telcos do all sorts of funny business and it can take them months to figure out if they can offer service to a particular building. Sometimes they need to send out people to actually poke around, sometimes they have to see if anyone else has access, etc. If you're a big enough building or throw money at it, they can usually figure out a way to make it work - but it's unlikely to be something an individual wants to spend.
slyall 5y ago
Not strictly accurate. Plenty of countries where the Telco monopoly didn't get broken up (NZ and Australia specifically) and those monopolies were in no hurry to spend billions rolling out home fibre.
- veb 5y ago
  at least we have super good fibre now. I'm on a 2GBps plan! I hear Chorus is even testing 10Gbps... If I'm honest, hyperfibre isn't really that much more useful than just normal 1Gbps. what NZ did well with their fibre roll out was connecting up all the smaller rural towns (in otago/southland anyway) :D

ricardobayes 5y ago

Once we got a quote for getting fibre at an address that is about 500 meters away from the Googleplex in Mountain View. Ultimately it was more cost effective to set up a FedEx schedule to mail SSD's across the globe.

30944836 5y ago
Your quote might have been “fake” and intended to convince you that they offer fiber to your address when they actually don’t. I went through this with Comcast in San Jose. Requested the service, weeks of run arounds and “we lost your ticket I’ll make a new one” followed by increasingly ludicrous quotes starting at $500 and then going up to $20000(!). All when the map on their site showed a trunk in my neighborhood. Eventually I started playing along just for a laugh, until they finally fessed up and said they don’t offer fiber in my neighborhood at all. Some sort of fraud? I dunno.
- bombcar 5y ago
  The telcos do all sorts of funny business and it can take them months to figure out if they can offer service to a particular building. Sometimes they need to send out people to actually poke around, sometimes they have to see if anyone else has access, etc. If you're a big enough building or throw money at it, they can usually figure out a way to make it work - but it's unlikely to be something an individual wants to spend.

slyall 5y ago

Not strictly accurate. Plenty of countries where the Telco monopoly didn't get broken up (NZ and Australia specifically) and those monopolies were in no hurry to spend billions rolling out home fibre.

veb 5y ago
at least we have super good fibre now. I'm on a 2GBps plan! I hear Chorus is even testing 10Gbps... If I'm honest, hyperfibre isn't really that much more useful than just normal 1Gbps. what NZ did well with their fibre roll out was connecting up all the smaller rural towns (in otago/southland anyway) :D