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Hardly. You are forgetting that most people's copper cabling is degrading quite rapidly or is already of very poor quality. Furthermore the number of nodes requ
by sjtrny 12y ago
Hardly. You are forgetting that most people's copper cabling is degrading quite rapidly or is already of very poor quality. Furthermore the number of nodes required on the street due to the 70m limitation would be a lot higher than with FTTP.
- XorNot 12y agoExactly - this changes nothing. You'd still be paying workcrews to go street-to-street digging things up and running things through conduit. At the point you're doing that, the marginal cost of getting them there is much higher then the cost of the equipment or cabling they'd be installing.
- Turing_Machine 12y agoRunning cable on poles or pulling it through conduit is much, much, much cheaper than fiddling around in someone's attic or crawlspace. The appointment has to be scheduled (i.e., the homeowner has to be there), you have to worry about the three hundred pounds of boxes they've got stored in the way, the crawl space or attic may be brutally hot or cold, have wasps, raw sewage, mud, or any number of other hazards. It's a slow and expensive job.
- sliverstorm 12y agoNot to mention legal hooplah and potential billing. Digging up the streets requires permission from the city, and maybe you send them a bill for some of your services. Digging up people's front lawns requires permission from every homeowner, and if you are offloading cost you have to bill each homeowner...
- sjtrny 12y agoYou have to have permission from the home owner to switch them over from ADSL to VDSL and to give them a new modem. Here in Australia the plan was to run Fibre to the outside wall termination point on each person's house by default (opt out). Then someone comes shortly after to patch it through the wall etc if and when the customer wants it. There was no legal hooplah at all.