At the tail end of last week BT Wholesale published an update to it’s Wholesale Broadband Connect (WBC) rollout data. The update brings expected Ready For Service (RFS) dates for a further 1200 telephone exchanges nationwide.
WBC, as we discuss at length in our guide, is BT’s next generation wholesale product that is sold to ISPs.
Yesterday’s news about FTTH created a stir, but what might a fibre service cost ?
Part of the answer is already in the public domain, from BT Openreach and BT Wholesale announcements relating to the Ebbsfleet pilot.
The fibre connection charge will be £130 and the monthly rental for a 10Mbits/s downstream (bursting to 30M) service will
The BBC News website reports criticism by analyst Ian Fogg that BT Openreach’s forthcoming fibre trial at Ebbsfleet will be “too slow”. He opines that a trial should use the fastest technology available.
BT are of course trialling the product they plan to launch as opposed to running trials on the fibre technology itself. Their FTTH