http://opticalreflection.com/2009/08/pauline-2-0/ Where broadband meets fibre-optics Sat, 04 Sep 2010 13:21:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://opticalreflection.com/2009/08/pauline-2-0/#comment-5 cyberdoyle Wed, 26 Aug 2009 08:15:37 +0000 http://paulinerigby.wordpress.com/?p=12#comment-5 I think the main thing we have to do is educate government, so any posts you could make which they might read would be great! They seem to think that a 2meg USC is enough for the UK to compete with the rest of the world in the digital revolution. I was reading today that over £30 billion would be generated if fibre was ubiquitous in the UK, and that was just a small portion of the ROI of the estimated £27billion required to upgrade to fibre to the home. Have you any figures for providing ftth for the UK? I don't think it will cost as much as they say, because every home already has a wire for a phone, it is just a case of replacing an expensive copper one with a cheap fibre one. The ducts, access, poles and wayleaves are already there... ...but any info would be great. I think the main thing we have to do is educate government, so any posts you could make which they might read would be great! They seem to think that a 2meg USC is enough for the UK to compete with the rest of the world in the digital revolution. I was reading today that over £30 billion would be generated if fibre was ubiquitous in the UK, and that was just a small portion of the ROI of the estimated £27billion required to upgrade to fibre to the home.
Have you any figures for providing ftth for the UK? I don’t think it will cost as much as they say, because every home already has a wire for a phone, it is just a case of replacing an expensive copper one with a cheap fibre one. The ducts, access, poles and wayleaves are already there…
…but any info would be great.

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