Telco Review to support changing technology

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#3474679 28-Mar-2026 13:04

I also think that any connection that is a split speed should have to be advertised everywhere with both speeds at equal size and at every place that speed is mentioned.

the reason that split speeds are used is because the underlying technology is split speed. 2.5 Gbps downstream and 1 Gbps up so the plans were created with that in mind.

The hyperfibre uses a different technology which is symmetrical so those plans are also symmetrical.

noroad

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#3474681 28-Mar-2026 13:14

boosacnoodle:

I'm wondering why LFCs are forbidden from offering retail broadband services, yet MNOs are allowed to offer FWA services directly? Seems like a particularly uneven playing field.

Because then you are re-inventing Telecom. An LFC who is vertically integrated has the incentive to act in an anti-competitive way. As someone who was there at the start I can tell you, the splitting of Telecom was the most important thing that was done to produce the pretty damn good fixed access platform we have now. Its hard enough to survive as an RSP as it is, allowing LFC's to retail would destroy the competitive market.

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#3474682 28-Mar-2026 13:15

bfginger:

Broadband providers should be required to provide landlines via the ONT where reasonably possible. There is no need to require the average landline user to buy an ewaste "modem" for a phone when the ONT is already designed for that purpose.

The phone line only market is close to zero.

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#3474689 28-Mar-2026 13:44

acsylaa:

Are they required by law? (Keen to know more on this one), I Didn't think that they were Required to by Law.

Just so long as the number was tied to an address for Emergency Services was my understanding.

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