Broadband product names misleading

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  • wongataa
    wongataa Posts: 2,627 Forumite
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    Chino wrote: »
    Which is precisely why the term as used by ISPs is misleading; in their advertising ISPs use the unqualified term "fibre", rarely qualifying it as "fibre to the cabinet".
    Virgin Media's offering is fibre to the cabinet in most cases too. They call it fibre.
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    wongataa wrote: »
    Virgin Media's offering is fibre to the cabinet in most cases too. They call it fibre.
    Yes but at least they use coax from the cabinet which is better suited for carrying high speed data than a copper pair. Also using DOCSIS rather than the DSL kludge helps in enabling higher speeds over copper
  • wongataa
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    Still not fibre to the premises though which is what was being complained about being misleading.
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