On Sun Feb 10, 2019 at 06:41:29PM +1300, Tony Wicks wrote: > in New Zealand the access layer (GPON plus local transport) > is largely regulated. Then Retail service providers buy the > access component wholesale and add layer3, national backhaul > etc. Retail for unlimited 1G/500M internet is about $75USD/month, > for 100/50 you are looking at about 50USD/month
What is the wholesale price? Is the same for everyone? In the UK the line is reasonably priced (wholesale around US$15/month for FTTC, FTTP is rare and $25 to $80/month) but backhaul is a problem as the incumbent charges around $40/ Mb/s /month. You're not going to sell a service with that for a viable price when retail prices are around $20/month for the popular products (40 and 80Mb/s). It skews the market to a hand full of large providers who can afford to build their own backhaul On the FTTH I've been involved in (www.balquhidder.net) I used AE rather than GPON. Positive factors were: Simple, cheaper, CPE not needing replacing each time a new faster wifi standard appears (the service is 1Gb/s). Simpler build with dispersed properties. Preference to maintain a (cheaper) ethernet switch vs propriertary GPON Any business can be given dedicated 1G DIA and can independently upgrade to 10G. With a lot of farms/home working the business/domestic distinction is fluid. Negative: Higher fibre costs but not huge vs GPON kit. A fibre cut results in a lot more fibres to splice increasing time to repair (96c on our trunks, would be 12c with GPON). This is the only major AE issue. brandon
