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BT Launching a up to 300 Mbps broadband service
GARETH197901
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via Fibre To The Premises,through BT Openreach
http://fwd.channel5.com/gadget-show/gadget-news/bt-openreach-launching-300mbps-broadband-gamers-rejoice
http://fwd.channel5.com/gadget-show/gadget-news/bt-openreach-launching-300mbps-broadband-gamers-rejoice
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essentially it will be an upscaling,instead of just being Fibre to the Cabinet it will be Fibre to the Premises,so the copper wiring final run in will be done away with
They will be announcing next they have reached their 2015 goal of the UK having the fastest BB in Europe when a large part of the UK will be no better off then than they are now. :mad:
It won't get the average speed up though like they need to compete. At moment the average is around 8 meg having a few houses with this won't bump the average that much.
BT announce FTTP and FTTC speed upgrades
http://community.bt.com/t5/BT-Infinity/BT-announce-FTTP-and-FTTC-spped-upgrades/td-p/298543
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BT need to realise that they are not going to gain a huge customer base unless they roll out FTTH as unfortunatly this is the future. The days of legacy copper are finally over. Even VM will soon be forced to upgrade the coax eventually.
FTTH is becoming cheaper to install over copper now.
Hands up to BT for trying though, Its just a shame 99% of the population wont have access to the service.
That makes it sound like a bad thing.
I wish this forum had an equivalent of the Facebook 'like' button!
Let's get everyone up to 3mbps before we worry about 300!!
To me, this sounds about as useful as having a car with a maximum speed of 200mph, are you ever going to get full use of it? Even households downloading HD video and serious gaming applications?
If it becomes available and you can see a use for it - go ahead, I think 20Mbits will be ample for me when my exchange is upgraded from 8 in a few weeks time.
1'm sandwiched inbetween 2 exchanges that off INFINITY but our exchange gets left behind despite them digging up the main road through our town to updated the other bloody exchanges.
Virgin ain't around here, people get faster and faster while others are left at the back of the line
Well, if there's a family using it, the whole lot of them could max out the connection with downloading files and streaming.
Why are you moaning now? In recent posts you have said you don't like society, don't like this country much for that matter, are not prepared to help others, "Why bother bla bla bla" so what difference does it make to you what speed others get so long as your allright Jack? Go back and read your posts, this is how you read.
Obviously its much easier to fibre up areas with a denser population. Yes money plays its part but its a business and not a charity. The more profit made means more to spend on isolated areas in the future.
York is still on about 2mb.
I blame the Romans.
6.8mb is shocking really. But my point stand if it's that low now fitting few house with 300meg will not get them where they want.
I agree with all points accept from the last one. What this shown is that is not true. They continue to fiber big areas where the max profits are to made. When there done just go back to big areas and give them faster speeds.
Now yes BT are business and max profit is what there after at the end of day. That is why people receiving low broadband won't get fiber without more government funding and the current funding is not enough especially when there aiming for the fastest average in Europe.
It doesn't offer anything like the same kinds of speeds as an Openreach fibre network would. Even Openreach's FTTC network will be way faster than LTE in the real world.