Korea Telecom doubles up on G.now to 1 Gbps, ties-in Turkey, Spain

It looks like Korea Telecom feels that its efforts in using G.hn as an access technology, to deliver MDU based broadband, are not only worth developing, but also worth exporting. It told Business Korea that it has plans to export what is now a 1 Gbps technology to both Spain and Turkey, although no operators there have been formally mentioned. What this amounts to is a rapidly closing window of opportunity for G.hn, in this case built around the Marvel G.now chips. We first came across this idea in February 2014 when Korea Telecom put the technology on trial and we suggested at the time that there was no reason to wait for G.fast, if G.hn chips were capable of…