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IS trials fibre
2011-10-14
Web Solutions made public they are busy with fibre to the home trials, but further said that cost is an issue Net Solutions related today they are now trialing a fibre to the home service, but suggested that the expenses might be too high for a commercial offering. Talking at the ICASA local loop unbundling ( LLU ) hearings, Is maintained that the price of delivering FTTH to a shopper is so high that it'll take an exceedingly long time to recover the original investment. Is maintained that the primary cost is to get the fibre connection from the curb into the customers' home. The pricey portion isn't the fibre itself, but instead the trenching and legislation connected with building a fibre network. Plenty of other operators have also pointed to the fact that the extreme cost of building a home fibre network simply makes it too dear to show a ROI.
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