So Rogers has lost me as a customer...

[James Knott]

Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 06:51:35PM -0500, Leigh Honeywell wrote:
>> EVDO, the "new Bell wireless thing" is only around 2.4 Mbps.  There is
>> a 25 Mbps service being rolled out, but you can only get 5 of actual
>> internet off it - the other 20 are being used to deliver IPTV.  2
>> channels at 10Mbps per.  Over a traditional phone line, currently only
>> rolled out to a few CO's.
>>
>> But screw the next-gen DSL.  I'd like some FTTP please :-)
> 
> VHDSL looks nice, although it looks like it essentially would be running
> fibre to the block, and then switching it to DSL over the phoneline at
> that point.  Does make the fibre all the way seem about as simple.

Then you'd either have to run the fibre all the way back to the CO or
have a fibre/fibre mux nearby.
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