John Rumm wrote:
On 06/08/2020 16:55, Andrew wrote:
ehh ?. ISDN was 64K and all the journalists used it to talk to the
'office' and be good enough for broadcast.

Probably chosen since it will handle multiple "lines" with good quality
and low latency, without needing to worry about more expensive routers
with QoS or VoIP prioritisation. (I did read a suggestion they may also
allow it to be used for a basic broadband provision if required)

And GPON has you sharing bandwidth with the other people on your local
segment. It's still the same line rate as if you took the 1Gbps package,
they just throttle you down to 500kbps in software. 128k, 500k, 1Mbps,
10Mbps - it's all minimal as far as the FTTP is concerned. Possibly 500K is
something even ADSL1 can handle and yet 'good enough' for a few voice lines.
(you don't really want multiple FTTP connections, ONTs, etc)

500K broadband sounds pretty painful in today's world!

Theo