jamie wrote:
where villagers can only subscribe to broadband services delivered over copper-based networks at a speed of 10 Mbps or below.
So if PCCW installs this ripoff VDSL, with a supposed speed of 30 Mbps, we won't be eligible for fibre?
***ing wonderful.
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The final list of villages to be covered under the subsidy scheme and the number of beneficiaries may be adjusted after the Government has completed consultation with the relevant District Councils (DCs) and has taken into account the views of the villagers concerned.
What kind of BS is this? "The views of the villagers"? He means the views of the DAB stooges.
In any case, EVERY villager, even DABbers, will want it.
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The Commerce and Economic Development Bureau and the Office of the Communications Authority (OFCA) are in the process of consulting the nine relevant DCs on the arrangements of the scheme (including the list of villages to be covered) between March and April.
Well, now it's almost June.
Is Lamma on the list or not?
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permits for road excavation works as well as the rolling out of fibre-based networks and submarine cables.
SUBMARINE CABLES!!!! That' what we need!! Will we get them, if so when?
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Depending on the progress of approval of the relevant permits, the inclinations of the villagers and the work progress, we expect that the newly built fibre-based broadband networks will be extended to the villages concerned in phases from 2021 onwards.
So at least 3 years, more likely 10.
We'll be 5 generations behind by then.
So, in reality, for the forseeable future, PCCW keeps foisting their rancid VDSL system on us at higher and higher prices, or we can choose to jury rig semi-legal hotspots using SIM card modems.