Re: LLU - sweating the copper
There is no LLU competiton now that the DSLAMs have been moved into the cabinets. When the kit was in the exchange, there was room for competitors to install their own infrastructure, which is how Be differentiated themselves by using ADSL2+ before BT. The move by BT to FTTC with VDSL kit in cabinets was a blinder because it killed off competiton in the local loop, meaning you could only buy their wholesale services... Laws of physics mean that long reach VDSL is pretty useless.
Interesting that the main illustration for this piece about fibre optic broadband features a copper coax cable...
Biting the hand that feeds IT
