Faber Optic Speed to be doubled

I am sure I read on here that BT were/are planning to double the speed of of Fibre Optic services. Can anybody point me in the right direction or comment as to if this is true or not.

TIA

Steve

In reply to a post by stevepressman:

I am sure I read on here that BT were/are planning to double the speed of of Fibre Optic services. Can anybody point me in the right direction or comment as to if this is true or not.

http://www.silicon.com/technology/networks/2011/05/1...

Re FTTP - http://www.thinkbroadband.com/news/4806-bt-110mbps-f...

Re FTTC, a whle ago - http://www.thinkbroadband.com/news/4726-openreach-to...

Thanks Guys much appreciated

Steve

How spooky is that I asked the question yesterday and got two replies from you Guys and then this pops up today.

http://www.thinkbroadband.com/news/4809-bt-announce-...


Steve

Edited by stevepressman (Wed 05-Oct-11 11:49:37)

What will the upload speeds be increased to?

Edited by deleted (Wed 05-Oct-11 12:51:22)

20 max.

In reply to a post by Justo:

20 max.

30 on FTTP?

Sorry, yes I was just talking about FTTC.

That should do nicely for my Media Portal set up over VPN, means my sister can watch live tv at uni.

In reply to a post by Hellish:

That should do nicely for my Media Portal set up over VPN, means my sister can watch live tv at uni.

bandwidth / data allowance ?

In reply to a post by Hellish:

What will the upload speeds be increased to?

Should be double what you get now.

Steve

In reply to a post by stevepressman:

How spooky is that I asked the question yesterday and got two replies from you Guys and then this pops up today.

http://www.thinkbroadband.com/news/4809-bt-announce-...


Steve

I assume that these speed increases will not be for free?

Steve

Who knows!

I believe BT Retail customers on FTTP get Infinity at the same price as those on FTTC, and that they get 100Mbps, though I could be wrong.

What other ISPs do is another matter of course.

Double? That's easy! They just become Faber & Faber the publishers

Direction pointer: http://www.faber.co.uk/

I believe that the uplift in speed shouldd be at no additional cost.

You definitely are slowing down. That was the first thing I noticed about the thread, and I thought we were all being polite .

Good crack though, now the "double" is around .

In reply to a post by nelix01:

I believe that the uplift in speed shouldd be at no additional cost.

I wouldn't hold your breath it's a new product from Openreach and will cost BT Wholesale and in turn BT Retail and other operators more than the current 40Mb packages. Whether or not BT Retail will be prepared to suck this extra cost up and whether they actually have any room to given they're already taking the hit on Infinity we'll see.

In reply to a post by philippercival:

In reply to a post by Hellish:

That should do nicely for my Media Portal set up over VPN, means my sister can watch live tv at uni.

bandwidth / data allowance ?

The bandwidth is what ever freesat standard def transmits at but its around 7Mb/s I believe.

Infinity is unlimited is it not?

i beleive there will be no extra cost as this will not cost bt anything to implement, they simply have to adjust the requency from the current 7ghz to 17 ghz, i also believe there will be no cost because they want to compete directly with virgin media, and are out to be the fastest bb available, hence the reason why fttp is getting an uplift from 100mbps to 110mbps just for the right to claim faster supplier.

Yes but potentially more backhaul capacity is needed and why would they not charge more for something that provides more? It'd expect it to be at least £5-10 more than current 40/10.

I saw an Openreach price list for the 80Mbps upgrade the other day, but not hitting the right searches today. Odd that I didn't bookmark it .

That was just the change-over prices, not ongoing stuff. I don't think I saw anything about that. So any differences could depend on the ISPs' individual policies.

I can see the profiles being changed and the speeds going up without price increases to try and gain market uptake. Apparently despite the headline figures being published Openreach and BT are not happy with the take up of FTTC so far. Giving up to 80mb and in effect getting clear of Virgin may well help.