Level1 News December 28 2020: Patron Edition! (FIXED)

What kind of copper is FTTN? We have some KOAX (Docsis 3.1 that could be called that). To upgrade a customer to FTTH we charge arout 750 euros. We have a few GPON customers but we try to do FTTH when possible. Sounds like your system is a node in a neighbourhood and CAT cables out from there? I live alone in the woods with a FTTH 10Gbit connection... 500 meters to the nearest available fibre hose/pipe so I had to dig the trench myself (around 750 euros for the digger to work a little more than a day) and another 1 000 euros for the installation. I have since started to work for the ISP and we are a small independant company (not "open"). A fibre installation in the middle of the darkest parts of Sweden costs around 4 500 euros with digging etc from other companies. Then again they probably use name brand equipment and that is something that we can skip as a small independent company. I rather have ten FS switches with matching SFPs on a shelf then one Cisco.

Filip Magnusson

I work for a Swedish ISP; those prices are outragous... There is no way the cost is that high.

Filip Magnusson

Yes someone at my work tried the calculator and it cost 27k to upgrade them... My father in QLD is able to get pure fibre from another provider (not NBN) for 10k NBNco quoted 14k for a poorer connection.

Im from Australia and work for one of the larger telecommunication providers i can state for sure, FTTN is garbage, they don't keep enough nodes and they don't invest in micro nodes which means that alot of our customers on FTTN cant even reach 10mbps, however customers on FTTC averaging 56mbps with the over provisioning of CVC bandwidth from the NBNco, HFC-NBN and FTTP NBN are getting advertised speeds and better. At my home i have gigabit internet on fibre to the home(known in Australia as fttp due to trademarking) but i strugle to reach gigabit and the apees fluctuates alot, my provider (not naming) advertises it as 250mbps minimum speed due to worrying about the ACCC fining them because the government can't build a good network.

I’m in Australia and can provide some more insight into our National Broadband Network. I live in a newer built area and have access to Fibre to the home, so I can get gigabit internet. I currently have 250/25 and achieve that constantly. However, older areas with fumbled together copper-node-fibre networks are terrible. The government has realised the terribleness of this and there is option to replace your copper with direct Fibre, but it’s super expensive currently.