Gigabit-capable Optical Network (GPON) is becoming more and more common and used around the world. In China, they believe that this is the future technology for the optical network. It began with the desire to use one fibre for multiple users. Today we normally have 64 users with large bandwidth and it is sufficient even for the most demanding users. However, there is also the evolution of mobile wireless technologies and the growing need to upgrade backbones and access network's base station. It raises the possibility of using GPON as a supply LTE base station. In this work, I explain what is GPON and what is LTE separately and I examine options on how we could use these technologies in a combination. At the end of this work, I come to the conclusion that there are no technical barriers and that it depends only on the operators and their policy for a change in that direction to be made.
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