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To: NDBFREE who wrote (42771)	2/27/2008 11:15:10 AM
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China Telecom slashes FTTH cost in Wuhan trial China Telecom has reduced the cost of fiber access rollout to as little as 1,800 yuan per household in a trial in Wuhan. According to the Wuhan city government, the rollout reached an estimated 50,000 households in 2007. It will extend to 100,000 homes in 2008 and 500,000 in 2010, sina.com reported. The cost of building fiber to the home (FTTH) is understood to have been 5,000 to 6,000 yuan in 2005. It has now fallen to 2,000-3,000 yuan and in the recent Wuhan trial was as low as 1,800 yuan. At the same time, the price of copper is spiralling, rising from 51,000 to 70,000 yuan last year, making fiber access a much more economic proposition. China Telecom and Netcom embarked on their fiber buildouts last year. China Telecom has confirmed it will first deploy the more mature EPON technology, and then upgrade to GPON as that becomes more affordable. Domestic suppliers ZTE, Fiberhome, GW Technologies, Ocean Broadband and Fibernet all shipped EPON technology to China Telecom last year.