Virgin Media vs BT FTTP

Anyone on BT fibre 900 and has a comparison with Virgin?

I work from home and have had my calls dropped 2 times today. I just want to know what peoples experience has been with BT FTTP in comparison to Virgin media fibre. I have a BT connection date of April something and am hoping people will tell me the BT is way better. I swore I would never join BT again after issues with them years ago but the will put my new connection in my office at the back of the house! I am super excited!!

Please pour cream and sugar on my cornflakes! No pi**ing in my cornflakes... please
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In reply to a post by Blairian27:

I swore I would never join BT again

Then use one of the other ISPs that can do FTTP 900 such as Zen, TalkTalk Business, or others....

One thing i will say is If you can get a FTTP provider I would because virgin media's customer services and prices are outrageous.
I am currently on a slow package with VM M100 and getting 100 is like the probability of getting signal in a nuclear bunker.

The reason I personally would change is for three reasons.
The first is that the more people join FTTP the lower the prices get whereas the more people join virgin medas gig1 service the prices won't fall as virgin media hold the market and can do what they like in the long run.

The second reason is that Latency is so much worse on Virgin Media because they use Docsis and it simply makes website loading times longer than a slower VDSL (FTTC) or FTTP connection or at least a lot of the time.
I know its noticable from using both networks which i would prefer to have.

The third reason is that Customer service with VM is "like trying to ride a horse on a freeway" its simply a never ending battle, i know other providers are bad but having had talktalk and VM i know once FTTP is at mine next year I won't be having VM again not unless they go full fibre and pay me to join.

"The first is that the more people join FTTP the lower the prices get"

What????

what i meant was what openreach amongst others told me and also said in documentation on the website before it was deleted. This is also how it worked out in france there was a graph that showed that as take up of FTTP increased the cost passed on to the ISP decreased.

I meant that as overtime we all get the services openreach will get their money back which makes it viable for lower prices.

I'm not sure if you remember that FTTC originally had a high cost for customers but as more customers got the service the cost went down as they "paid it off".

I hope that clears up what i meant a little.

"Technology getting cheaper as adoption increases" is a very different statement to what you wrote though.

There's a lot of outlandish claims being made by this account in various threads, especially regarding access to Openreach staff which you would for sure be bound by an NDA to not share if they were true. I think it would be good for the whole forum community if you could just read over your posts and make sure that you're not making any exaggerations before you submit them.

Still not clear. You tend to waffle about other countries and what they do.

In reply to a post by broadband66:

"The first is that the more people join FTTP the lower the prices get"

What????

🤣🤣🤣 That's a cracker...did you know you can get 1Gbps service in London for £20? Except you can't.

I will do what you have said.
I'm extremely sorry and meant exactly what you stated below.
I contact Connecting Cambridgeshire for my openreach information as they are able to disclose to the public information.
I have never been asked not to disclose any information so I don't know anything about an NDA as i don't work for them.

Sorry about that at the time i wrote it i thought the service was live as i saw in a news article that stated they were up and running and the price was there so i assumed, however when i checked the site for you I realised whoever wrote the article was wrong which made me a fool for believing it I promise i will research this in advance in the future instead of believing media. I feel bad for giving false hope but from what i read it did sound like it was available however after checking the website i saw what your showing me and I promise to research and double check everything i say in the future as i really don't want a bad reputation.
I only ever mentioned that service as an article was sent to me on a discord server only with screenshots and i did not read into it until after which was a big mistake Sorry about everything.

I'm going to go off the forum for a while as i feel like i have caused confusion and i feel like i cannot be respected for my mistakes which I understand all I can say is sorry and when I do post anything I will thoroughly check every detail i think of.
I hope I can make up for my massive let down in the future.
My most sincere apologies.