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		paxys on Nov 1, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: FCC launches inquiry to increase minimum broadband... Fiber is symmetric, coax is not. This isn't some grand conspiracy, just how the underlying engineering works.

orra on Nov 1, 2023 [–]

In the UK, Openreach FTTP is heavily asymmetric. Network operators aren't entirely at the whims of asymmetric standards: network operators want asymmetric services.

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