On Sun, 2009-07-19 at 11:54 -0400, James Knott wrote:
Per Jessen wrote:
Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
about it. Around here it's the electricity companies promoting fibre,
I didn't know you could use fibre to carry electricity. ;-)
Yes, they are using the new kind with the holes.
It is primarily a legal/cost issue. Power companies have the right-of-ways to install the cable (and the labor force).
So do the telcos, but I think they saw fibre as being too expensive whereas the existing copper could be reused for VDSL at very little cost.
I don't know where you are, but around here, both phone and cable companies moved to fibre many years ago, as it's the only way to carry all the bandwidth necessary today. In new developments, fibre to curb is common and also to large office, apartment & condo buildings. Copper is simply too bandwidth and distance limiting. Many people are too far from the central office to get ADSL, let alone VDSL.
All too true, I'm on the distance limit for DSL, and it was so slow the kids ended up coughing the diff in cost to move from xDSL to Cable Internet. Down in this end of the Country (South Western Ontario), Ma Bell is slow doing that change-over, I don't know if Cogeco has run their lines.