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Byline: Bill Pechey
Fibre deficiency threatens UK's wellbeing
The knowledge economy will struggle to thrive without a last-mile connectivity boost
Bill Pechey
Fibre to the home (FTTH) is one of the hot topics in networking at the moment, but a recent conference in Paris revealed that efforts in the UK to provide fibre-optic connections in the so-called last mile link to the subscriber are dwarfed by those of other nations, and the UK risks falling behind its global competitors in this area.
The Crossing the Chasm to Mass Market Fibre conference was organised by the FTTH Council Europe, an industry body set up to promote the technology. Even though FTTH is aimed at residential consumers, there are …