Re: Cable/DSL and the future of high-speed internet

Data point: a "considerable" number of mobile ops worldwide are pulling fibre to their Node-Bs or at least their RNCs. (No, wireline types - not Republican National Committees, Radio Network Controllers - you have one for every 10-15 Node-Bs, for a very rough idea) Sources say the triggering event is the enablement of HSDPA (and presumably Revision A for the CDMA world, although I haven't heard of a CDMA carrier fibreing up yet). Some deployments so far have been up to 2,000 cell sites with fibre backhaul.