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Bevan Slattery wrote:
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Come on - let's do this right for a change, because if anything the past
5 years and three initiatives have proven, Government DOESN'T know best.
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Although sometimes government has to step in, because just as many
initiatives kicked off within the industry have died due to commercial
in-fighting as everybody attempts to steer the outcome to their own
view of what benefits themselves most, and the group/industry outcome
comes a distant second. Much as I'd like to believe that if we threw
the best-and-brighest in a room and locked the door for several weeks
we'd come out with a great set of cooperative interconnection and
architecture plans, in practice in the past the herded cats flick out
the claws and the whole thing has collapsed.<br>
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Perhaps FTTH is new enough that nobody will have an entrenched market
position, and the industry will come together to forge the brave new
world - Pollyanna still lives.<br>
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I truly hope we can do better at this than the French, often held up as
a beacon for competitor FTTH builds , as reported just last week:<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.totaltele.com/View.aspx?ID=444719&t=2&en=1">http://www.totaltele.com/View.aspx?ID=444719&t=2&en=1</a><br>
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<h2 id="ctl00_MainContent_h2_Standfirst" class="Size_9 Bold Black">Arcep
publishes new proposals to ease FTTH stalemate amid low FTTH subscriber
figures; says telcos can set own wholesale rates.</h2>
<p>France
looked set to be a European leader in FTTH deployment when in 2006
Iliad announced it would invest €1 billion in FTTH networks by 2012,
driving its competitors to plan investment.</p>
<p>Nearly three years on
and only 170,000 homes subscribed to FTTH at the end of 2008, of which
130,000 were cable customers, according to figures published by Arcep
on Tuesday. That is from an addressable market of 550,000 homes passed
within 20,500 apartment buildings, the French regulator said.</p>
<p>One
sticking point has been which technology to deploy: point-to-point,
which is favoured by Iliad's Free, or GPON, which is being promoted by
France Telecom.</p>
<p>Following a three-month trial that ended 31
March, Arcep has decided to let operators decide which network
technology to install, albeit with a number of provisos.</p>
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After three years of industry infighting (including the regulator), the
regulator has decided to allow operators to choose the FTTH technology
they deploy, and thus have incompatible network builds in different
areas.<br>
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Paul.<br>
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