(OT) Changes to NTT-East broadband -- Question

[Keith Wilkinson]

(Questions follow at end)

It seems that NTT-East is reverting to monopoly mode,
and squeezing consumers in order to create huge profits.
They have sent out a leaflet saying that B FLET'S
New Family type (direct optical fiber to the home) is
to be discontinued and replaced by FLET'S Hikari NEXT
Family high-speed type. They have been making
threatening phone calls almost daily for several months
to try to persuade people to switch "before their internet
is cut off".

The former (B FLET'S New Family type) was 100Mbps
max. up or down, the latter (FLET'S Hikari NEXT Family
high-speed type) is up to 200Mbps down -- but NTT-West
has already switched their version of the latter to "up to
1Gbps, same price". 

NTT-East also distributed a leaflet offering the choice
of optical fiber or VDSL "for this mansion".  Despite
this offer, NTT is now saying that, "if you live in a
"mansion (condo)," then you get whatever the
"Kanri Kumiai Rijicho" has decided -- which can
typically be one 1Gbps circuit shared by 30 families
using VDSL or LAN or optical fiber.
However, the price for sharing with 30 or more
others is very little different from the price that
was previously charged for an individual optical
fiber direct to the nearby phone exchange.  

On the other hand, for individual houses they
offer the same FLET'S Hikari NEXT Family
high-speed type shared by at least four (NTT
East) or five (NTT West) houses.  For houses
and for mansions that are not prewired, it
appears that the method of sharing is to
terminate the optical fiber on a small circular
drum-like container on a pole on the road, and
run the VDSL or fiber from there.  The drum
contains optical to VDSL or "optical splitter"
electronics, to share one circuit four of five
ways (at least).  In the case of our "mansion",
power for the electronics is supplied by a
metered power cable run from the "mansion".
The "mansion" "kanri kumiai" pays for the power,
and NTT repays them for the cost of the power. 

Question:  Is anyone else having trouble with
NTT trying to forcibly switch them from an
optical-fiber circuit they have used for maybe
ten years to a "communal" system shared by
a few dozen others?

Extra Question: If anyone else has optical fiber,
is it the same system (drum-like signal splitter
on a pole outside, and cabling to a few houses)?
And how is power supplied to the splitter -- is
there a power meter on the pole, for example?