Fibre Optic

iniltous

Buzby wrote: »

This is all nonsense. People talking about fibre are still on boring copper. All Internet connections have been fibre for the last 10 yars - the only difference is it is crawling slowly from the telephone xchange to a cabinets in a street or two away. So what's the difference? Hype?

Since a chain is only as strong as its weakest link, singing the praises of fibre is erroneous until you actually GET fibre - BT call it FTTP (Fibre To The Premises), what you get is the halfway house, FTTC (Fibre to the Cabinet) and you just get copper as before, a bit faster, but no fibre in any meaningful way.

Don't perpetrate the hype - the marketing boys are taking you for a ride.

BT don't call their FTTC service fibre to the premises, but like Virgin Media who called their broadband 'fibre optic' then obviously BT can use the same terminology,its fibre optic to the cabinet, they have FTTH in selected areas and they can call this fibre to the home because that's what it is, also BT are introducing Bespoke FTTH in FTTC areas, so If you are willing to pay for the construction costs of providing fibre from the FTTC cab to your house you can have FTTH in a FTTC area.

iniltous

societys_child wrote: »

Sky and TT can offer fibre because they have their own MPF in the BT exchanges (as opposed SMPF) They've paid a lot for this.

See post No1 - Why do you think the others have not been able to offer fibre?





Plusnet are a BT company and have offered fibre for over a year.

Sorry this is nonsense, Sky and TT can offer FTTC in exchanges where they cannot offer MPF, but sell WLR3 pstn, FTTC has nothing to do with MPF or SMPF, if BT offer wholesale access to their FTTC then it's universal, any ISP that wants to purchase access and sell it on under their own brand name can,any ISP's that don't offer FTTC is because they don't want to, rather than they are disallowed from doing so...pretty sure Ofcom would be all over BT if they said a particular ISP wasn't allowed to buy access, the only way BT would be allowed to do this would be if this ISP owed BT money, then like any business, don't pay your bill, you don't get service