Like Jason said, don't expect to see FTTP for quite some time in older houses. It is only being installed in a new estate in queensland as a trial for the technology.<br /><br />FTTP will allow the customer to have 4 POTS (plain old telephone system), broadband internet (still with a 1.5Mb/s limit) and pay tv. It also requires a small UPS to be installed in the house for power outages.<br /><br />It will be only using 1 fibre to the house. How's does 1 fibre work? Shine two torches directly at each other, you can still see the other torch light can't you. Fibre splitter exist in telstra networks for data rates up to 155 Mbits with data flying in both directions on one fibre. You do get small reflect of light from fibre splices and patches, but provided your RX signal is strong enough, the backscatter from the TX wil be ignored.<br /><br />Also with FTTP, thus customer can be up to 20Kms from the exchange.<br /><br />Cheers,<br />Col.