BT in trouble, hiring more staff

http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/may/19/bt-h...

Edited by deleted (Mon 19-May-14 12:55:46)

I would rather wait 2 or 3 weeks for a fully qualified and experienced OR engineer than have some new recruit or contractor mess with my line. Unfortunately one doesn�t really have a choice but certainly I would opt for a self install vdsl filtered faceplate and modem setup and just hope that the deployed engineer is doing a good job at the cabinets.

6 weeks I've had to wait for my standard ADSL install.

Edited by deleted (Mon 19-May-14 15:17:32)

Gotta wait 3 years before I can even order FTTC

Wonder how much lower the maintenance workload would be if they made a serious attempt to migrate people to FTTP, or at very least offered a viable data-only FTTC product rather than forcing people who don't actually want a POTS line back to the exchange to have one.

Good to see the extra jobs, silly that they are needed because Openreach continue to rinse long copper loops for all they're worth.

What would TalkTalk, Sky etc. do with all their LLU kit?

How do you know it's 3 years?

In reply to a post by somerset:

What would TalkTalk, Sky etc. do with all their LLU kit?

Most of it would still be used - FTTC is no different to FTTP in an exchange.

Please explain. They have DSLAMs in many exchanges, yes, all these would be redundant with FTTC or FTTP. But if they were forced to go FTTx they would not be used straight away.