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Re: French ISP upgrades fiber customers to gigabit

In my opinion in Canada it is all about the old school saying of 'maximizing profit margins at ALL COSTS'.

It's not like there is a shortage of IP transit capacity in Canada, in fact in large urban centres like Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal there are at least 3-5 large multi-national suppliers bringing in terabits of cross border capacity. Plus the majority of Canadians live within 100km of the US border and the large US cities (e.g. Seattle, Chicago and New York City) are relatively CLOSER to these Canadian cities than the US south.

Technology in terms of capacity can solve literally anything (the latest DWDM systems do 100Gbps per wavelength over 8.8Tbps per fibre pair).

It's all about business and revenue/profit margin, period.

It's not a surprise on modernised networks the carriers can offer unlimited bandwidth.

The only real cost is the construction cost of FTTH to the end user. I guess in France the operator seems to bear this cost.

Actually laying fibre in rural and semi rural areas may well be far easier than in urban areas!!! String the fibre on the poles!

Also, you'll find in Europe, they string cables across the outside of urban buildings without much consideration for appearance and urban buildings there are mostly adjoining each other like our city centre cores.

You would be astonished how rural France actually is! The major difference is the urbanization are far higher population density than our urban areas.

Bottom line on average is that distances in Canada make a singificant item on transit, but not last mile delivery.