After many years waiting, writing and speaking about the subject, it appears Fibre To The Home has finally made it into the mainstream news. So, in order to help others who may not have been involved in campaigning for FTTH for the last decade, this blog has been set up to try to keep all those who need to know about FTTx up to date with developments (or not if BT and BIS have their way), opinions, current thinking, functional projects etc.
Saturday, 2 August 2008
Home owned fibre drops
There is a pilot underway in Ottawa installing FTTH to 400 homes. The twist in this one is that the intention is to sell the fibre drops to the end user so they own their own fibre. More details here. What is not mentioned is whether the residents are going to set up a buying co-op or similar to attract the interest of service providers.
Thanks for this very interesting post.
ReplyDeleteThe actual article seems to indicate that the company that will install the fibre will then manage it on behalf of the residents who own it for a fee. So it does not seem to be a co-operative model.
However, it will be interesting to see how it works out.