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You can quote all the cat5 and cat6 you like, you obviously haven't read my earlier posts properly, and I know all the terms and the meanings, and that Fiber is replacing copper, worldwide.
The companies doing the installation are the telecoms companies WITH the service providers of MEDIA CONTENT, video-on-demand, Internet TV(where the Premier League is rumoured to want to move, from Satellite, and a deal is waiting for the rollout of Fiber to the home) ....
"Under Project Lightspeed, SBC will provide integrated IP-based television, ultra-high-speed broadband, IP voice and wireless bundles of products and services. With today's announcement, SBC will significantly accelerate its previously planned deployment pace and now plans to reach 18 million homes by year-end 2007. Through Project Lightspeed, the company will deploy 38,800 miles of fiber — double the amount used to build out the company's DSL network — at a cost of $4 billion to $6 billion."
You cannot deny it IS happening, and when one country does it, the others will follow, Japan started it, other Asian and Scandinavian countries followed, and USA and Canada are following them, and the UK will follow in their own time.
Pressure will come from those countries already converting, "we have it, and you are slowing down the WWW by not having it" !!!!
PM