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'Fibre broadband' should mean glass wires poking into your router, reckons Brit survey

Ian Michael Gumby
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@AC

If you had fiber to the box, then told the consumer that they had to spend extra $$$$ for no difference in terms of performance... how do you think that they would feel?

If you're talking copper for the last 100 yrds or less, its not the same as if you had copper for the last mile.

So if you live in an apartment and had fiber to the building but then its muxed out via copper... is that really a bad thing?

Yes, I'm the guy who 20 years ago had a pair of fibre cables pulled from my unit to the telco closet / room so that I could put fiber in some day when FIOS came around. So even if its in my neighborhood, since my building doesn't have it... I can't get it. Its the 200-300 feet under ground within a pipe that is missing, but you can't tell the phone critters that.

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