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Perhaps I'm not the only one interested in getting official feedback from Openserve/ISP's on my query regarding the hybrid/FTTC model brought up in today's "Openserve’s big ADSL shutdown explained" article, so I thought I'd post and tag you for some investigative clout.
Pasted my original comment at the bottom of this post.
I have been asked the same by elderly person who lives in one of the specified September 1st DSL "cut-off" areas from the previous article, who is self-quarantining due to their covid risk profile - 4 months so far, and until their medical advisors say otherwise.
They aren't leaving their home at all, nor having guests, they fetch essential contactless deliveries from outside the house to be sanitised before use, etc... and certainly wouldn't consider inviting in installers for fibre.
So in order to maintain their only connection to the outside world, they would like to keep their DSL setup as-is inside their home.
That said, they wouldn't mind if they're switched to a "hybrid" solution whereby their ISP package changes, and/or exterior cabling is switched to fibre rather than copper - as long as no one has to come into their house to do so.
Of course once their self-quarantine ends, they'll be happy to make the switch to full fibre.
While I've given a very specific example above, it's also a general query about how the FTTC change-over will work for other cases where for whatever reason, someone in these 1st Sept "cut-off" areas can't get fibre physically installed within the next 5-ish weeks.
Another example could be holiday homes in other provinces, etc etc.
Could we get clarity from the powers that be, regarding what will actually happen in these cases, come 1 Sept?
And what the options are for people in this position without having installers come into their house?
My comment on the article was:
"Do existing DSL customers in those specified 'cut-off' areas need to rush to get fibre physically installed into their homes by 1 September?
Or would they be able to seamlessly migrate to this FTTC "Hybrid" product and keep using their already connected DSL router fed by the RJ11/copper, just with a different ISP product enabling the connectivity?"
Perhaps I'm not the only one interested in getting official feedback from Openserve/ISP's on my query regarding the hybrid/FTTC model brought up in today's "Openserve’s big ADSL shutdown explained" article, so I thought I'd post and tag you for some investigative clout.
Pasted my original comment at the bottom of this post.
I have been asked the same by elderly person who lives in one of the specified September 1st DSL "cut-off" areas from the previous article, who is self-quarantining due to their covid risk profile - 4 months so far, and until their medical advisors say otherwise.
They aren't leaving their home at all, nor having guests, they fetch essential contactless deliveries from outside the house to be sanitised before use, etc... and certainly wouldn't consider inviting in installers for fibre.
So in order to maintain their only connection to the outside world, they would like to keep their DSL setup as-is inside their home.
That said, they wouldn't mind if they're switched to a "hybrid" solution whereby their ISP package changes, and/or exterior cabling is switched to fibre rather than copper - as long as no one has to come into their house to do so.
Of course once their self-quarantine ends, they'll be happy to make the switch to full fibre.
While I've given a very specific example above, it's also a general query about how the FTTC change-over will work for other cases where for whatever reason, someone in these 1st Sept "cut-off" areas can't get fibre physically installed within the next 5-ish weeks.
Another example could be holiday homes in other provinces, etc etc.
Could we get clarity from the powers that be, regarding what will actually happen in these cases, come 1 Sept?
And what the options are for people in this position without having installers come into their house?
My comment on the article was:
"Do existing DSL customers in those specified 'cut-off' areas need to rush to get fibre physically installed into their homes by 1 September?
Or would they be able to seamlessly migrate to this FTTC "Hybrid" product and keep using their already connected DSL router fed by the RJ11/copper, just with a different ISP product enabling the connectivity?"
