COMMENTARY: It's time to consider fibre to the home

TECHNOLOGY ADVANCEMENTS ARE enabling new competitive options for cable companies to consider – however, these same technologies can be used by competitors to win customers away from cable. Last year the CommTech Trade Show in Kelowna had the first major introduction of Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) technology to Canadian audiences. I remember 10 years ago looking at the costs of delivering fibre services that far and figuring that there wasn't enough money in the world to afford it. Now we find that a critical mass of technology in the FTTH space has been reached. Numerous vendors have working systems and standards for...