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