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It works okay, but the integration between the fibre and the last mile has cost an absolute fortune - due to custom hardware & software solution with a relatively short production run (which has also meant that new connections had to be paused as they had run out of NTD hardware and the production line to make more had been closed).

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HFC was a massive bodge but it does work... at least for the moment.

My interpretation of the various data points was that it likely did result is a faster roll-out, at pretty much similar costs as FTTP w/ higher maintenance and sooner need to replace.

In other words it did what governments have become expert at, mortgaging the future for the present.

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