It is not impossible just more expensive. Incidentally here in Denmark we have TDC now converting active ethernet to GPON.

lør. 9. feb. 2019 19.01 skrev Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>:
On Sat, 9 Feb 2019, Mark Tinka wrote:

> If I had to build a consumer broadband network and had the budget (and
> owned the fibre) to do so, I'd definitely always choose Active-E:   

For anyone saying it's "impossible" to do AE they're welcome here to the
nordic region and especially Sweden where PON is basically unheard of. We
have millions of AE connected households. I live in one of them.

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Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike@swm.pp.se