Fibre-To-The-Home, briefly

Shaw’s announcement to deploy only fibre cable beginning next year comes in the wake of Bell’s planned expansion of its fibre network in Atlantic Canada. Shaw and Bell began their fibre network developing programs in the spring of 2010. Shaw started with two trial networks in Calgary and Vancouver, where Shaw constructed up to 1Gbs networks into new apartment buildings. The trial was meant to be six months long; the decision to focus on deploying only fibre cables can be then understood as a result of this trial.

Shaw’s announcement to deploy only fibre cable beginning next year comes in the wake of Bell’s planned expansion of its fibre network in Atlantic Canada.

Shaw and Bell began their fibre network developing programs in the spring of 2010. Shaw started with two trial networks in Calgary and Vancouver, where Shaw constructed up to 1Gbs networks into new apartment buildings. The trial was meant to be six months long; the decision to focus on deploying only fibre cables can be then understood as a result of this trial.

Fibre networks are becoming a standard among Canadian telecommunication companies, yet deploying fibre network into homes (FTTH) is a costly and still not-near-future thing. Developing fibre networks is understood to be the way to attract new customers.

Interesting then becomes the issue of usage based billing, since the speed of the fibre networks is up to 1GBps.

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