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Portugal: Copper switch-off in three years

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  • 16-03-2016 8:23am
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    clohamon
    Registered Users Posts: 1,765 ✭✭✭


    Portuguese incumbent plans to start ripping out its legacy network next year with a view to going copper-free by 2020.
    The economics of rolling out fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) vary considerably by market, but in one major European market the picture looks rosy enough that the incumbent plans to rip out its legacy copper access network within the next few years and concentrate solely on fibre.
    Indeed, Portugal Telecom puts its cost per household of rolling out FTTH at less than €100, which is significantly lower than many operators can hope to achieve.


    and from Diffraction Analysis
    But PT [Portugal Telecom] is on the right track: sooner or later, it has to happen because the cost of running an ageing copper network for fewer and fewer customers makes no sense. It’s high time that incumbents (and regulators) who are serious about FTTH start looking into copper switching and build scenarios on how to get there. The efficiency gains (not to mention the value of copper on the raw materials markets) are very important, and once the revenue gains to be derived from migrating the customer base to fiber will be accounted for, the next step will be efficiency.

    If Portugal is doing this despite its dire economic situation, surely other countries can achieve it too.


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