Canadian Broadband → Re: Start.ca - won't offer FTTH (Home)?

Why Doesn't Canada Have FTTH In Every home.. google fiber is an example... cause the isp's are lazy ****S

More like because the ISPs don't have Scrooge McDuck money vaults to swim in like you do.

lol 2080 we will still have 5mbit internet and the average speed for 10800 p resolution movies would require 1000 megabit connections period

lol

canada is so screwed !

Google Fiber is only in one city in the whole continental U.S. and Verizon Fiber expansion has stopped dead in its tracks.

rocca, Bell offers a 50/50 FTTH profile as well.

Because certain parts of Canada (especially Ontario) want to maximize their return on investment for Cable/DSL even though those technologies are prehistoric compared to GPON FTTH.

If you look at Saskatchewan or the Maritime Provinces they are doing a massive roll-out program of FTTH (Sasktel since 2011 and Bell Aliant since 2009). Infact Bell Aliant is the second largest FTTH provider in the continent serving 670,000 Households.

MJB, FTTH is NOT ubiquitous as you make it to be. You mentioned Google FTTH - it's currently available in a few neighbourhoods in 3 US cities only! They are expanding but it takes time and a LOT OF MONEY to run fiber directly to the residence. Same here in Canada, it's only available in a very limited number of places in Toronto and Montreal. It will take 10 years before FTTH is the standard defacto. (BTW, someone I know in Burlington needed fiber to his house to support 4 commercial servers for his business. He now has it, but it took over a year of planning and about $12K in permitting and installation costs. IT was that or wait about 5 years for it to get to that neighbourhood. Just the cost to the city for permits to tunnel under streets was hundreds of dollars!

Google FTTH is not in every American home either... In fact, it's only in Kansas City and is slowly expanding to its suburbs.