Local Loop Unbundling progress

[MidnightWizard]

Spot On

That's why I wrote "partially" .

@ic -- I know we do not always see eye to eye

From where I am sitting I think you are right on the money !

( for what it is worth from someone that writes "gibberish" )

PS; -- DO you perhaps work for said "demonopolies"



MW

 

[Roman4604]

It's also no secret that the vast majority of ADSL lines are 384kbits/s - not only due to exorbitant pricing, but also due to the Copper length of most lines,

I would say the overwhelming majority of people on 384Kbps are there due to price. The differential in sync characteristics between 384Kbps and 512Kbps are insignificant vs. the price differential, 512Kbps is 115% more expensive than 384Kbps.

therefore shortening the Copper length would have allowed many more customers to upgrade to 512kbits/s or 1024kbits/s||4096kbits/s, which would then complete the business motivation you referred to, i.e. higher rental fees.

If price is the barrier, shortning the local loop will not result in any increase in revenue. And once you go past the bottom end of the market, speeds from 640 - 4096 (future 8192) are at the same price point. No business case to invest the huge amounts it would take to upgrade most of the local loops to FTTC.

Why is there such a big Hoo-Haa about LLU when everybody is saying Scr3w Telkom, and building their own networks... Honestly, What's the point!?

Because of the difference in performance potential the two options provide.

Most alternate networks aimed at the mass market will use wireless in the local loop, its too expensive to deploy wireline infrastructure in a market as small as SA. The net aggregate throughput that can be achieved via DSL exchange is orders of magnitude more than that of a wireless base station.

Each subscriber on a DSL exchange has their own dedicated spectrum of all frequencies avaliable on their copper line, while on a base station everyone shares the restricted frequency of the radio technology used. Even with technologies like LTE a single base station will only push a few 100Mbps onto the network, while a DSL exchange can do 10s of Gigabits.

Real broadband in the 10s of Mbps per subscriber is only achievable using wireline technology, thus making LLU pretty important.

 

[Roman4604]

I will agree to disagree and stick with the Copper length issue as the primary reason and exorbitant pricing as the secondary reason.

Suit yourself, but I have never seen a 384Kbps line that could not sync to (at least) 512Kbps as well (with similar error rates), the margin between them is so infinately small.