BSNL FTTH through franchise

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meetdilip

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That's what my cablewalla just told me. They will soon be offering BSNL FTTH through their cabling. Cablewalla will act as a BSNL franchise. I really hope it will take BSNL FTTH to small towns and villages.
 
Yes. Basically BSNL has a strong Fiber NW but it is expensive to put last mile to each home using OFC. So BSNL & other ISPs are tying with Local Cable Op (LCOs) to offer Broadband over cable. It is called EoC or Ethernet On Cable which converts your existing Co-Ax CATV to BB. LCO will install a Master at the Building. BSNL Fiber will terminate in this master. LCO Cable feed will also terminate in this Master. The combined output will be connected to existing CATV Cable NW. LCO has to install Filters in the CATV distribution Box to enable the BB signals to pass as they are in different band to avoid CATV interference. Then at Customer home, a splitter is installed. The splitter hasd two output. One O/P goes to STB and other output goes to your WiFi router or PC etc.
 
Isn't BSNL prices already higher than local competition? If there are middle men in between the prices will rise more. BSNL should try to get their own sea cable from seamea4 or what it's called so they don't have to buy data from Tata or Reliance at unreasonable rates.

Edit: seems sea-me-we-4 is owned by Bharti and (VSNL) Tata tele in India and VSNL is the administrator of the link.
 
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