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Originally Posted by weesteev
FTTH should be renamed FTTPR (Fibre To The Press Release) in my opinion.
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Yes, and that was basically what I was saying earlier in the thread about the first "trial". Literally nothing but a PR stunt. Rigging two poles up in a car park, slinging fibre between them and running that cable into homes. But we now have, it seems, a proper trial.
The purpose, I believe is still largely PR and Berkett didn't deny it when an analyst put that to him. But he does want to use it as leverage to the Government to encourage BT to open up their networks. As Berkett put it, he want BT not just to "open up" but actually be "opened" to VM.
A few details were given about the trial, it will use the poles of the electricity company and interestingly they are seeing how tolerant the fibre cables are between high and low voltage electricity cables. What he didn't say, but inferred, is that for the fibre cable to be tolerant of high voltage cables means the fibre will in some cases go over long distances between towns as that's where high voltage cables are deployed...
Curiously, he said VM does not own the fibre.... If VM is not careful, he could find that the energy companies might "wake up" and decide to be tv/broadband operators themselves if this trial is sucessful... They're sitting on quite a mountain of cash from the rising prices of gas and electricity.
He said if VM can economically pass more homes, then he will using whatever method available.