Legal Right To 10 Mbps by 2020

molerat

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-42423047 All I can say is :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: I would love to know how. It took Openreach 2 months work on my SIL's line to get it up to 2Mbps, she previously could not even get dial up. That map for current speeds makes me laugh, obviously drawn up by someone with rose tinted glasses !

boatman

At what cost? Some places can get fibre from companies such as Gigaclear for £50 a month, where as if you have Openreach, you can get deals for £20/month with a bit of cashback. So will they, in this situation, subsidise Gigaclear or go to the trouble of running Openreach infrastructure?

worried_jim

2020? 5g mifi and tether, who needs a cable.

molerat

worried_jim wrote: »

2020? 5g mifi and tether, who needs a cable.

Access to a mobile signal comes in handy for that though !

Johno100

I'm in an area that is fully cabled for Virgin, but while the BT Openreach exchange has been upgraded for fibre my local cabinet hasn't (and according to the checker there are no plans to do so). I wonder if BT Openreach will be able to use the availability of Virgin cable as an excuse not to upgrade my area under these proposals?

ciderboy2009

Johno100 wrote: »

I'm in an area that is fully cabled for Virgin, but while the BT Openreach exchange has been upgraded for fibre my local cabinet hasn't (and according to the checker there are no plans to do so). I wonder if BT Openreach will be able to use the availability of Virgin cable as an excuse not to upgrade my area under these proposals?

I'm in exactly the same position her - only 2 miles from the centre of Bristol so by no means "rural".

I would happily pay for Virgin if they offered broadband only at a decent price - £30 a month is just too expensive.

societys_child

£30 a month is just too expensive.

OK, the choice is your's.

teddysmum

ciderboy2009 wrote: »

I'm in exactly the same position her - only 2 miles from the centre of Bristol so by no means "rural".

I would happily pay for Virgin if they offered broadband only at a decent price - £30 a month is just too expensive.

Same here, but we are a mile from the exchange. We get around 5Mbps, which is ok for just the two of us , but I wouldn't pay Virgin's high prices as we don't need their speeds, though a little more than present would be nice.


The annoying thing is that all premises around our estate ,including outward facing premises of the estate can get well priced fibre but we are nit enabled, though the exchange has been for two year or so. We just get the next October promise, over and over. (Even PlusNet told me last September that we were due by February 2017.)

ciderboy2009

societys_child wrote: »

OK, the choice is your's.

Would you pay £30 when you know that, if Openreach got there act together, then you could get the same access for £7.99?

iltisman

Fibre would be of no advantage here as the last half mile of copper wire is noisy . I complained to BT and a chap sprayed contact cleaner on wires at the top of a pole and our speed doubled for a week.

worried_jim

ciderboy2009 wrote: »

Would you pay £30 when you know that, if Openreach got there act together, then you could get the same access for £7.99?

But they haven’t, so £30 pm until they do.