BT completed roll out of fibre broadband? Oh Yeah?

WestonDave

Its been in down here in Wurzle land for months, but then we've got working water mains as well.

Now where did I leave that hosepipe?

C_Mababejive

I'm not sure it means 10 million connected and using customers. It means that the network is now available to 10m customers .Its available to me. BT have tried to flog it to me but i do not want it or need it at its current price as im happy with my O2 7mb link.

I suppose the biggest blocker to rollout is duct availability. Its releatively simple to shoot fibre optics down ducts but if ducts are full /dont go where you want to go or are just not their eg in poles environments such as rural,then it involves mass expenditure is digging and laying ducts. Not cost effective.

hareng

C_Mababejive wrote: »

or need it at its current price as im happy with my O2 7mb link.

On ADSL2+ i was lucky to get 1.5meg download with 100's of dropouts a day, then at liberty of packeting = no connection. 6km from exchange laid with aluminium cable. Lucky for some, ADSL i was on sub 750 IP profile for years.

So to get round that have to pay for it £24 p/m plus line rental and calls.

Timalay

Not available until the end of July (was supposed to be April also). But I can wait (good things come to those who wait).

nilrem_2

In the tiny village where I live 3Km from the exchange it will be old hat when it reaches here!
What bugs me is they seem to keep increasing the speed for people who are already getting pretty decent service but poor sods like us are stuck on a sub 2Mb service with little chance of improvement.

Perhaps they should concentrate on improving things for people with slow speeds or even no Broadband before upgrading people already on a speed that many of us would be over the moon with!

Moan over!

usignuolo

I looked on uswitch to see speeds available locally and it prompted me for my postcode and then listed the various service providers who operate locally including BT and Virgin. When I clicked through it then listed the full range of speeds from both of these, as though they were available to me, in fact they are not.

BT is not scheduled to install Infinity at my exchange until later this summer nor is Virgin scheduled to upgrade our broadband until July. So in theory the higher speeds are available to me, according to uswitch. In practice, they aren't, not yet anyway.

macman

You'll get much better info using the exchange mapping facility on samknows.

usignuolo

According to samknows, BT FTTC (I assume this is Infinity?) is available at my exchange now. According to BT is it not - scheduled for later this summer and has already slipped twice. samknows also tells me Virgin cable is available locally (I know I have it) but not what speeds.

C_Mababejive

nilrem wrote: »

In the tiny village where I live 3Km from the exchange it will be old hat when it reaches here!
What bugs me is they seem to keep increasing the speed for people who are already getting pretty decent service but poor sods like us are stuck on a sub 2Mb service with little chance of improvement.

Perhaps they should concentrate on improving things for people with slow speeds or even no Broadband before upgrading people already on a speed that many of us would be over the moon with!

Moan over!

Maybe you and the rest of the residents could organise a self lay project? 3Km isnt much.

macman

usignuolo wrote: »

According to samknows, BT FTTC (I assume this is Infinity?) is available at my exchange now. According to BT is it not - scheduled for later this summer and has already slipped twice. samknows also tells me Virgin cable is available locally (I know I have it) but not what speeds.

It's not exchange availability that matters, it's whether your cabinet in connected yet. What samknows is telling you is that FTTC is now available on your exchange, but not every cab has yet been upgraded.