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Why try to start a new network? CFH is nearly ready to decide on the proposals its received and I'm sure some of the existing FTTH players in each region might accept an extra financial partner. Perhaps you might like to provide an alternative Layer 2 network over the government funded FTTH, allowing you to se ONTs that support your QuadPlay requirements. Internal house wiring is going to be a major obstacle in many suburbs where there is phone wiring and nothing else, so you might need to take that onboard and go with HPNA hardware. Southern Cross is a choke point but you can choose from whatever international providers if you have a node at Sky Tower. Best to chat with Mr Tindall about new cables, but try to avoid fault-prone areas like Luzon Strait and other areas that cause ongoing maintenance for Southern Cross.
I don't intend to start a new network - I plan to build on what is already available in the way of open-access fiber, especially since most of those companies are themselves in the running for government funding - we're not really interested in that (although from what I understand, the government intends to buy pre-built networks anyway for the purpose of keeping a single network which is open to all). But, we want to concentrate mostly on being an end provider.
TelstraClear's fiber plans are a little murky at the moment, but they're not really looking at FTTH too much at the moment, and Telecom clearly wants to milk every last kilobit out of it's copper network, which I assume it hopes that it doesn't have to retire until 2020. By then we'll ONLY be about 15 years behind.
Having studied deployments in several other countries, I'm not too concerned with the existing house wiring - most of it won't work anyway unless it can be retrofitted with a jack to plug in to our CPE, which as I may have mentioned is rarely (if ever) worth doing.
I expect that we will provide up to 10m of cable from any given outer wall which in most houses I've been in to is more than sufficient - the CPE we are using has 2 fiber inputs (single-mode) so we don't have to worry about an additional ONT feeding a broadband router.
This will create a scenario where there is a single device feeding Broadband, TV and Phone. We can't even begin to predict anything about the phone or TV simply because everyone has different setups.
Some people have old TVs, some have new. Some support an ethernet IPTV connection, others don't. Some people have Sky and/or Freeview. Then there are things to consider like home-theatre systems, DVDs, VCRs, PVRs and a myriad of things which may or may not work with what we provide for some reason or another.
In my parents case, I only need to put the STB in, plug in the cables and it's all go - a large number of people probably have the same sort of basic set up. But then it also has to be considered that some households have 2 or more TVs - how do we provide independent access to them? Any solution requiring an STB immediately requires 1 per TV.
Then there are phones.
I recently changed my folks over to Xnet VFX, requiring the purchase of a Linksys PAP-2T and an RJ-11 to BT connector. Fortunately, they had 3 phones all operating from a single jack, and a separately installed jack for the DSL (there's an alarm, so it was necessary). I just plugged the 3-way BT plug in to the RJ-11 to BT adapter, in turn plugged in to the Linksys PAP-2T and that was it.
But what about people who have separately installed phone jacks in each room? For those to continue working, we would need to run a cable from our CPE to where-ever the main connections feeding the lines are in order to retro-fit the house for VOIP over Fiber. Telecom in their latest FTTH presentation video are having the same issues, only not as much because most of the places they and WxC are deploying FTTH are new suburbs in which the houses do not need to be retrofitted.
Chorus have an advisory for getting your home ready for fiber - it looks like they expect the homeowner to do it http://www.chorus.co.nz/Get-your-place-ready
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