Hey, Renai!

[Tinman_auParticipant]

I’ve seen you call the Labor NBN “FTTH” a few times now, and would just like to point out that it’s actually “FTTP”.

As NBNCo it’s self says at http://www.nbnco.com.au/about-us/our-purpose.html :

“We will connect 93% of homes, schools and workplaces with optical fibre (fibre to the premises or “FTTP”), providing superfast broadband services to Australians in urban and regional towns.”

While fibre to the home will be nice, I actually think the biggest benefits will be in business, medical and education, and calling the roll-out FTTH kind of misses that point.

Sorry for bringing up such a small thing, but I feel it’s actually pretty important to show the NBN is more than gaming and movies (which is what I think about when I see FTTH), and not B2B and medical cases (like Remote MAPping for children with Cochlear implants http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:281785), etc.

Not trying to pick on you or anything, just asking you to think about it :o)

[Renai LeMayKeymaster]

I’m happy to go with what the majority of Delimiter readers want. I’ll highlight this forum post and see what people think.

[Michael WyresParticipant]

FTTP wins.

FTTH where “H” = “Home”, and nothing else, implying “not businesses”

So FTTP is more indicative of what they are doing.

[paddybtsParticipant]

Another vote for FTTP

[Renai LeMayKeymaster]

From the posts here and on Twitter, it looks like FTTP wins. OK, I’ll start using it from now on :)

[Hubert CumberdaleParticipant]

I’m not sure if this really matters, whenever I see FttH used in a NBN context I automatically read it as FttP. I’m sure I’ve used FttH a few times myself too.

[NPSF3000Participant]

Actually, I technically prefer FTTH.

Why? Because FTTP can refer to FTTB or FTTH – but from everything I’ve read NBN is attempting FTTH.

The difference is, as wiki explains, that if you’re in a MDU [e.g. apartment block] NBNco will try to give you a fiber connection – instead of a VDSL/CAT 5 Ethernet connection.

Of course, you’d have to double-check this is still the situation.

[Tinman_auParticipant]

Admittedly, I used to use FttH a lot myself, until I realised that there was actually more to it :o)

[KarlParticipant]

I like FttP, because the abbreviation itself is harder to mix up with FttN when I’m being a derp :D

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