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As long as there's fibre somewhere along the line, High Court judge reckons it's fine to flog it as 'fibre' broadband

Keith Oborn

Hmm: in the UK (I guess you are not) the cable provider - for whom I worked for many years - has used the term "fibre" for a long time.

Amusingly, when ADSL was young, they advertised that their product was better than the competition's "copper". BT complained. They lost because <cable provider> pointed out that the coax cable was steel sheathed, so not "copper".

As evidenced recently by Boeing, when marketing enters engineering, truth and performance leave immediately.

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