Cable / Telecom News

Source Cable hooked on fibre

HAMILTON – Source Cable has hooked up its first “Fibre to the Home” residential customer at a new housing development on Hamilton Mountain, a technological development which the company says puts it at the head of the pack. “We’re very proud to be on the leading edge of technology,” said Source Cable President Dan Campbell in a statement. With “virtually error-free transmission”, he said, “customers are getting services directly from our head-end over fibre. There are no nodes, trunks, amplifiers, line extenders or power supplies. Each house is connected to an optical tap, which sends light down the fibre optic...