Amsterdam and Paris have both announces plans to build a municipally owned Fibre to the Home network. The Amsterdam network will be run by the municipal authority but open to telecoms operators to use. Details on the Paris initiative are a little more sketchy but sounds as though its on the same lines. If these succeed then I’m sure UK municipalities will think hard about it as the first ones to introduce it will attract inward investment into the area as well as generating a new revenue stream.
The encourging status of Verizon’s FiOS FTTP product should encourage UK network providers going straight to FTTH without slowly graduating through slightly better technologies.BT would be in a very strong position if it could offer its IPTV service combined with 100Mbps fibre line.
