The industry term is FTTx.
What you're calling "pure" fiber is FTTH -- Fiber to the Home. Once it
gets to your house, it converts to copper, usually ethernet.
UVerse is FTTN -- Fiber to the Node (FTTC is Fiber to the Cabinet, same
thing).
It costs less because they don't have to run optical cable all the way
to your house, which may involve trenching or "special construction" of
some sort, it uses existing copper, and depending on the operator, gives
you the same speed you'd get with fiber.
... and at a lower cost.
That said, the short xDSL part isn't supposed to radiate.
I'm waiting for a gigabit FTTH project to reach me here. The ONT will
be in my office, but it'll be copper through the rest of the house.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiber_to_the_x>
73 -- Lynn
On 8/26/2017 5:14 AM, brian wrote:
It is especially true that they lie about now being pure fiber to the
house.
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