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It’s not just fast, it’s Fibre Optic!

Times, they are a changing.   Fibre optic is coming to Pera, yes our little village is going global and the sales people from Portugal Telecom (PT) have been round!    We are lucky, I think PT ran out of fibre optic cable and Pera is the end of the line!   (It’s the same (I hear) for the mains drains, anything above Pera is not connected). In fact large towns like Figueira da Foz are without fibre optic because the law in Portugal has recently changed to allow any provider the opportunity to 'rent' the lines of PT.  So, what have PT done?  They've stopped putting in the lines of course!    A law which is suppose to benefit everyone,  gives consumers choice and adds some competition to the marketplace, has backfired a little and the result is a deadlock that ends up stalling progress! So with a promise of a whopping 30mb speed guaranteed we signed up!   Now we wait for the change-over and for the obligatory moody PT engineer to come and drill another hole in our wal