On 17/08/17 16:35, David Derrick wrote: > I didn't expect FTTP to be cheaper, I was wondering whether it might > be more cost effective sometimes where big improvements are needed > regardless and given the greater future proofing in full fibre. Good > to know there's flexibility to not aggregate where it makes sense.
Certainly some of us are of that opinion and deploying nothing but FTTP en masse in rural areas - we seem to be able to make it make financial sense at large scales, at any rate! There's certainly a place for copper line sweating for now in urban areas, and Neil's perfectly correct that in dense areas the cost benefit of aggregation is worth the investment in enhancements to technology and can provide acceptable performance for now. However, eventually everything will be FTTP if nothing else due to copper line degradation over time, and doing it "all at once" rather than piecemeal in a geographic area certainly has some substantial economies of scale associated with it.
