is fttp coming

northernstar007

hi all question, i see on my council website my street and full estate is going to be covered with roadworks for 4 weeks, its all with virgin media, thing is my full area is all openreach phone lines thats has the hold in full estate, we all have access to fttc which are getting about 60/18 and the cab is a few hundred meters away 
is this a sign im getting fttp and virgin doing it for bt?

littleboo

Virgin don't build FTTP for Openreach, if Virgin are building, then you will have the option of getting service from them and them only.

northernstar007

very strange, as virgin is nowhere in sight where i live, if there going to be putting a complete new network down underground from the estate that wont be cheap and bt have the complete area in there sales will be hard to move people away i cant see how this can be profitable for a long way off

EssexExile

We've had two operators dig up the footpaths around here to put in completely new networks, I too wonder if it makes financial sense but I assume they've done their homework.

DullGreyGuy

northernstar007 said:

very strange, as virgin is nowhere in sight where i live, if there going to be putting a complete new network down underground from the estate that wont be cheap and bt have the complete area in there sales will be hard to move people away i cant see how this can be profitable for a long way off

Dont VM primarily sell as a TV provider and then bundle off that?

iniltous

The fact that there is already a lot of financial distress with many of these operations , with redundancies etc and mergers / takeovers, perhaps they didn’t do their homework at all 

FreeBear

EssexExile said:

We've had two operators dig up the footpaths around here to put in completely new networks, I too wonder if it makes financial sense but I assume they've done their homework.

Cable & Wireless originally installed the cabling that Virgin now use (via a series of takeovers & mergers). We had the choice of dialup then ADSL or Virgin for many years. CityFibre have just finished installing their cabling & infrastructure in the neighbourhood - For those that want high speed broadband, they will have signed up to Virgin, and I suspect many will stay. The mainstream suppliers like BT, Sky, & TalkTalk are all charging comparable prices to Virgin, but are not offering super fast speeds.

One wonders if CityFibre have done their sums, as I don't see a huge uptake using their cabling. But I suppose they got a good chunk of government money to cover the upfront cost. So maybe the sums do add up for them.