Swish v BT

Banbury exchange is in the middle of a BT FTTP roll-out and a couple of my friends say they have been door stepped by Swish salespeople. The other day I noticed that Swish have a couple of roadworks planned in Brackley (and I assume Brackley will be upgraded as/when engineers become free at Banbury).

Meanwhile a colleague in Liverpool has had the same thing although he's already with Hyperoptic.

So it looks like Swish is going head to head against BT.

Swish look to be installing in smaller market towns which are popular with commuters e.g. homeworkers too.

One thing to consider is that the Swish service is symmetric which may or may not be important for some people who only look at the speed as a measure of performance.

Remember it's really an Openreach FTTP rollout, not a BT FTTP rollout. This means that there's a wide choice of providers on that network - you don't have to use BT.

In reply to a post by smouty:

One thing to consider is that the Swish service is symmetric which may or may not be important for some people who only look at the speed as a measure of performance.

That would make it more attractive to me. I don't really need more than the 67Mb/s downstream I get now but a bit more upload would occasionally be interesting.

In reply to a post by candlerb:

Remember it's really an Openreach FTTP rollout, not a BT FTTP rollout. This means that there's a wide choice of providers on that network - you don't have to use BT.

Yes, true. I'm currently with IDNet and I'd like to stay with them but I don't know if they'll ever partner with Swish. We will see

Just got home and found a letter from Gigaclear saying they are starting work in Brackley now. Weird.

Just got home and found a letter from Gigaclear saying they are starting work in Brackley now. Weird.

The altnets largely don't care about competition from Openreach: it's expected.

Business as usual!