[LINK] NBN is FTTH

[Eric Scheid]

On 7/4/09 12:44 PM, "Tom Worthington" <Tom.Worthington at tomw.net.au> wrote:

> However, developments with broadband technology,
> particularly wireless broadband, may make the
> system obsolete before it is built. This may save
> the government from embarrassment by allowing the
> new technology to meet many of the stated goals,
> without the planned system ever being built.

I'm seeing tweets to the effect that it being FTTH (vs FTTN) means the speed
can be increased very easily just by upgrading the end boxes. Laying fibre
is expensive, upgrading boxes is trivial, or so I hear.

Comments?

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