BT To Test Huawei 1Gbps Broadband Over Copper

judgecorp writes "BT is testing a different fiber broadband topology FTTdp (Fiber to the distribution point) and G.FAST, which could give 1Gbps broadband speeds at its research site Adastral Park in Britain. FTTdp pushes the network fiber closer to the user's premises than FTTC (Fiber to the Cabinet). In many cases this is less than 250m, a distance at which it's possible to get 1Gbps over the copper phone network using G.FAST, a new variation of VDSL broadband ."

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Re:oh god who cares

[Joining Yet Again]

You appear to have a fundamental misunderstanding of the difference between neoliberalism (which is classical liberalism renamed, and gave us workhouses etc.) and social democracy.

Neoliberalism is based on the capitalistic belief that it is better to accumulate capital and invest it wisely than to labour.

Socialism is based on the belief that people should not be able to gain personally except from labour.

Social democracy takes a bit of both, although really it is capitalism with a Keynesian bent rather than socialism with a bit of NEP

The upshot of this is that while the average working person is entitled to more rest under social democracy, those who were previously able to leech off their capital genuinely had to "work for results". Thatcherism reversed that, which is why 30 years later Britain's a fucking joke and America's circling the drain.

In particular, BT hasn't had to work much for results for 30 years.