<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div class="mediumbig blue b">Here's broadband news of interest from across the border. RL</div><div class="mediumbig blue b"><br></div><div class="mediumbig blue b"><br></div><div class="mediumbig blue b">BBR User Gets Early Peek At Mexico's Telmex FTTH</div><div class="subHeadline blue b">Chihuahua User Among First Telmex FTTH Customers</div><div class="subHeadline blue b"><br></div><div class="subHeadline blue b"><a href="http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/BBR-User-Gets-Early-Peek-At-Mexicos-Telmex-FTTH-115638">www.dslreports.com/shownews/BBR-User-Gets-Early-Peek-At-Mexicos-Telmex-FTTH-115638</a> </div><div class="news"><div class="wiki"><h3>The State of Fiber Broadband in Mexico</h3></div>Around February of 2011 <a href="http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/113104">I noticed</a>
that Mexico's largest phone company Telmex started laying fiber-optic
cable around my neighborhood in the city of Chihuahua in the state of
the same name. At the time I was not entirely sure for what reason,
after some research I confirmed that it was for an FTTH (Fiber to the
Home) roll-out, as suspected. Chihuahua is not as large or commercially
important as other cities in Mexico such as Mexico City, Guadalajara,
and Monterrey. Chihuahua is not as densely populated as any of the
previously mentioned cities and it only has 819,543 inhabitants as of
2010, yet Telmex was rolling-out FTTH like in in other small cities, as I
later discovered. <br><br><table align="right"><tbody><tr><td><a href="http://www.dslreports.com/r0/download/1677156%7Efe5f1e38be97d21f9eeb0c806ff3b50a/Telmex.JPG"><img class="apic" src="http://www.dslreports.com/r0/download/1677156.thumb200%7Efe5f1e38be97d21f9eeb0c806ff3b50a/Telmex.JPG/thumb200.jpg" alt="Click for full size" border="0" height="110" width="200"></a><br></td></tr></tbody></table>In
contrast, El Paso, Texas (the nearest US city) which has a similar
population size -- is probably not going to be considered for FTTH
builds in the near future. Households in El Paso are stuck with
"vanilla" DSL and Cable, which only goes to about 15 Mbps.</div></div><div><br></div><div>(snip)</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><br><div>
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