1. Power needs to become more reliable and more fibre needs to be laid.

2. We already build fibre to the basement, and have done for many years.

3. A distribution point unit powered by the house or business connects the fibre and the copper.

4. The faster light can travel through a fibre the lower the potential latency of data transmission.

5. The system actually uses bundles of many small fibre tubes.

6. Ahead of the pack is fibre, as one would expect.

7. It turns out that fibre is the most pragmatic approach until they invent something else.

8. There are currently 85,192 active customers on the fibre network.