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BT FTTC Plans Advanced
09 Jul 2009 | 14.35 Europe/London
BT Openreach has brought forward its plans for what it is calling "super-fast fibre broadband" i.e. cabinet based VDSL services with download speed up to 40 Mbits/s. This will see 1.5 million homes have access to such services by early summer 2010 . A million of those homes will have access by March next year.
Initial upstream speeds will be between 5 and 10Mbit/s rising to 15Mb/s. Wholesale access to other ISPs is designed into the proposed system.
The overall plan is for 10 million homes in high population density areas to be connected up by 2012. The press release lists the telephone exchange areas involved in the first tranche.
[ BT press release ]
Initial upstream speeds will be between 5 and 10Mbit/s rising to 15Mb/s. Wholesale access to other ISPs is designed into the proposed system.
The overall plan is for 10 million homes in high population density areas to be connected up by 2012. The press release lists the telephone exchange areas involved in the first tranche.
[ BT press release ]
its not super fast, its just faster than adsl, and it is only happening in areas that already have decent adsl. Superfast is what Korea has. But its a start. We now wait until 2012 and then they might do the 60% that really need their connection improving. Or we campaign to get fibre POPs into rural areas and JFDI ourselves?
09 Jul 2009 | 15.16 Europe/London
I don't think many people have an appetite for doing it themselves. Look at current notspots as evidence.
09 Jul 2009 | 15.40 Europe/London
Does anyone know if LLU ISPs (specifically Be) will be taking advantage of FTTC? Will they need to install their own hardware in all the street cabinets or can they just plug themselves into the fiber at the exchange?
09 Jul 2009 | 15.52 Europe/London
FTTC from Openreach will have a generic ethernet access option so a provider could provide backhaul to its users from a handover point in the exchange or elsewhere in the network. http://www.samknows.com/broadband/news/ofcom-ok-openreach-fttc-698.html
09 Jul 2009 | 16.15 Europe/London
well they are gonna have to learn or do without! It will never get done otherwise. BT will never do it. They are happy milking the obsolete copper and waiting for a government to pay while they pocket the profits.
09 Jul 2009 | 20.40 Europe/London
FTTC in Muswell Hill currently has 22 out of 55 handed over and going live, if not already, within weeks. The majority of the rest are in conservation areas and awaiting council approval to continue work.
Next phase will push 1700 to 5000 cab before Mar 2010 throughout the UK
10 Jul 2009 | 22.08 Europe/London
Yea, and those that dont have the option of phone provider via fibre instead of the twisted pair, pay the tax too so they can have high speed access one day.
11 Jul 2009 | 07.19 Europe/London