BT announces plans for 80Mb FTTC broadband...

http://top10.com/broadband/news/2011/05/bt_announces...

They only announced "roughly double", not 80Mbps.

They'd previously announced they'd reach 70Mbps in the labs.

"We have plans to roughly double the speed of our fibre-to-the-cabinet based service in 2012."

Great! That should fit in quite nicely for our exchange (originally due Dec 2010 / Jan 2011, but repeatedly pushed back - now due Sept/Oct 2011, so I guess we might just be enabled by the end of 2012).

The actual quote is

"During 2012 we will continue to expand our 100Mbps fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) services and to test a 1Gbps
service and we expect to roughly double our fibre-to-the-cabinet (FTTC) speeds to up to 80Mbps. Future changes
are expected to take the potential for FTTC to over 100Mbps."

In short -

Speed increases to start in quarter 4 of 2011.

Download speeds to increase to 80Mbps (where applicable)

Upload speeds to increase to either 15Mbps or 20Mbps

Source - http://www.ispreview.co.uk/story/2011/05/12/bt-uk-to...

And the divide did groweth, and the poor fowkes of thine rural hamlets did ask of the Lord God BT,

"Did thine rural subscribers offend thee?"

and the Lord God BT turned and said to its children,

"Cough up thy billions of dosh and dubloons, and thou shall have FTTC on the morrow."

and the townsfolk did rejoice with much mirth and giggling.

Speed increases to start in quarter 4 of 2011.

Presumes industry agrees to changes to the ANFP

20Mb/s upstream would be great.

Good question anyone know the answer?

Someone from NICC said that BT had got permission in the last week. NICC seems to be the co-ordinating body for exactly this purpose, so I guess "industry" does agree. At least technically.

I can't find which particular article listed that quote though...

In reply to a post by camieabz:

And the divide did groweth, and the poor fowkes of thine rural hamlets did ask of the Lord God BT,

"Did thine rural subscribers offend thee?"

and the Lord God BT turned and said to its children,

"Cough up thy billions of dosh and dubloons, and thou shall have FTTC on the morrow."

and the townsfolk did rejoice with much mirth and giggling.

It's not just those who live in rural areas, there are plenty of suburban areas without any fiber virgin or bt, and so far no plans for it,mind you it don't bother me, as there is no llu provider offering fttc/h as yet, which would be a proper service if they also used their own core network once it hit the exchange or even the cab's maybe take btw and it's archaic dlm / shaping ect out of the equasion

Its a quote from the BT press release of the results. http://www.btplc.com/News/ResultsPDF/q411release.pdf

Thanks. Every quote I'd seen had obviously been from the first occurrence in there, which only mentions the "roughly double", but doesn't mention the 80Mbps that is present in the 2nd location.

Mind you, when I looked at BT's announcements, I couldn't find *any* mention of improvements to FTTC!

Sounds good. Then again, I would say that - my street cabinet is about 50m away.

Its quite a way down in the Openreach section and quite easy to miss.

In reply to a post by Anonymous:

... maybe take btw and it's archaic dlm / shaping ect out of the equation

The DLM on BT FTTC is Openreach, not the BT Wholesale one, and it seems to be pretty good. IP Profiles update very quickly.

There are also trials going on of a much faster-reacting BT Wholesale one with much smaller steps on WBC/ADSL2+.

So you are right about the past, but the future is looking a little more hopeful.