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Broadband powered by home gateways? Whose bright idea was THIS?

Tim Jenkins

I caught two BT-sub-sub-sub-contractors pulling Superfast Cymru-funded multicore fibre up our road one evening in August, and followed them to a new in-pavement hole that recently appeared (complete with BT-branded concrete slab on top). As there are only 20 houses here, I'm assuming we're supposed to be getting FTTRN rather that FTTC, which does leave the question of where they are going to pull power from; it's certainly possible that they'd look at the adjacent streetlight, where there's 'a near 100% chance of finding power' right up until the moment when Powys forgets the node is there and decides to cut off streetlighting to save budget (again)

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