Want Fibre Broadband without changing line rental supplier

macman

VM cable doesn't require line rental as it doesn't use a BT line. However the price is rigged so that it's almost as cheap to take the phone service as well. You'd be daft to keep the PO line and in effect pay line rental twice.
All other FTTC is a resold BT Wholesale service.

teddysmum

Do the Post Office not offer fibre anywhere or could it be that your home area is not fibre enabled ?

macman

They don't resell FTTC.

The_Groat_Counter

macman wrote: »

VM cable doesn't require line rental as it doesn't use a BT line. However the price is rigged so that it's almost as cheap to take the phone service as well. You'd be daft to keep the PO line and in effect pay line rental twice.
All other FTTC is a resold BT Wholesale service.

A bit pedantic but FTTC is actually enabled through BT Openreach rather than BT Wholesale (they are different divisions of the BT Group).

Less pedantically, Openreach only provides the FTTC (fibre to the cabinet) and copper line from cabinet to the household - at the other end, Openreach delivers the ISPs traffic to one of their nodes in a nearby exchange. That ISP might then use BT Wholesale's network to provide the underlying internet access, or their own network (e.g. Sky), or use the wholesale services of another network provider such as TalkTalk.

The point is that not all FTTC services are the same, even if the local part of the access arrangements are provided by Openreach. In other words FTTC isn't all just some rebadged BT service.