In message <511c3a4a.7050...@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp>, Masataka Ohta writes: > Edward Dore wrote: > > > Sadly, despite this being challenged with both the telecoms > > regulator (Ofcom) and advertising watchdog (ASA), for some > > reason both seem pretty happy with the utter farce that is > > advertising BT/OpenReach's VDSL based Fibre To The Cabinet > > and Virgin Media's Hybrid Fibre Coax networks as "fibre > > optic broadband". > > Sadly, it is impossible to say FTTC not "fiber optic broadband", > because it is "broadband" (at least with today's access speed) > with "fiber optic".
And by that argument pots dialup is fiber optic because the packets went over a fiber optic link to get to the CO. Mark -- Mark Andrews, ISC 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: ma...@isc.org
