This news article about FTTR left me scratching my head. What is the value proposition in adopting this technology?

Given that the article talks about fibering individual rooms in your home, for Gigabit speeds.
I’ve already done it with my own Gigabit PoE switch and Cat 5e to each room.

Assuming that we are taking about a clean slate, that may be something worth considering depending on the cost of equipment and fiber runs, but I don’t see how it’ll be beneficial to existing home installations.

In addition, all the equipment seems to be owned by thr ISP. So you won’t have any real control over network configuration and management in your own home either.

Maybe someone has a better idea of why it would be useful.

For now no benefit. The true benefit is future technology when we want 10 to 100GBps speed in our homes which current wifi technology cannot support.

Rule of thumb is higher speed -> lower range for wireless devices hence need multiple access points at the house