Since there is no active equipment anywhere between the Core Location of LCO till Customer premises the power problems are reduced to almost zero. Of course LCO needs to maintain Power backup at his Core location, but it's much easier when it is 1 location only that needs attention and one location can also have enough backup that survives all electricity downtimes.



In the non-ftth model, you need power at multiple points in the network, which depend on different sources, and is much more difficult to have backup everywhere and for every such point.



Regarding the competence,



I would not say that they need higher competence, because maintaining non-ftth network is also challenging in a way - you need to deal with power, switches (active equipment), whereas with FTTH model you deal mainly with Signal power and cables - much simpler task, and the entire IP layer is basically non-visible for LCO guys.



Having said that, still they need specific competence when having FTTH deployments, and Excitel is having training program for all its local partners that are Excitel Fiber enabled.