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Re: Telecom to axe 600 exchanges. LLU and ADSL gone??

From: Brian Gibbons <brian_at_outersite.co.nz>
Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2004 11:07:59 +1200
Message-ID: <09d701c4781c$634a7d20$2a64a8c0@pcx.local.lan>

>From: "paul warner" <paul.warner@bigfoot.com>
>Telecom will take out a whole layer of its telecommunications network by
>axing 600 local telephone exchanges by 2012 and will spend $120 million
>over the next five years rolling out fibre optic cable to its roadside
>cabinets.
>
>I wonder if this will signal the end of ADSL as we know it and also
>LLU. Telecom could then argue that they have installed all this fiber and
>your not getting it..

It would be the and of ADSL as we know it.

The end of the reliability problems, the end of interleave and hi
latency/round trip times.

If they have fibre to a street box then VDSL for the last kilometre via new
copper at 50mbs then yes it is the end of ADSL as we know it.

Cheers

BG.

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