A small box (approx 15cm x 10cm x 3cm) will need to be fixed to the outside of your property so we can run the fibre optic cable straight to your home. You do not need to be at home for this stage provided that the engineer has access to the outside of your property close to where your phone line enters to attach your fibre box.

There's no mention of how the fibre gets to it?

A plastic tube is pushed through the small duct/tube or overhead, and the fibre is then blown to the premises.

'modem' inside house http://www.farina1.com/fibre/wgc_media/source/IMG_43...
http://www.farina1.com/fibre/wgc_media/source/IMG_43... external box opened up and showing connector to fibre that goes inside property

http://www.farina1.com/fibre/ loads more bits

Indeed, but there's definitely a business market for lower-cost broadband with the higher upstreams but not needing the "protections" of an SLA.
Currenltly if you need the higher upstream you're often stuk with buying an expensive leased line / ethernet circuit with SLAs, committed rates etc whether you really need them or not. The cynic in me suggests that BT are in no rush to give businesses the option to choose.

I will probably sign up to this once its available in my area. Just need to get rid of all the Virgin FTTP equipment.

Incidentally does anyone know if BTOR released any documents stating which areas are going to have 100MB service?

Another six areas on top of those in our news item, but Openreach has not given a roll-out plan that represents complete network.

To some extent this avoids the annoyance at plans shifting time, and for FTTP even worse exact location.

Makes sense.

After reading the article I think I am going to wait to see how much they will be charging for the 80/20 FTTC service.

In reply to a post by maniac886:

I will probably sign up to this once its available in my area. Just need to get rid of all the Virgin FTTP equipment.

Virgin is not FTTP. It is FTTN(ode), then I believe coax to the cabinet, and certainly coax from there to the premises.

IMPORTANT:

You dont get a choice at a premises, it is either

FTTP
or
FTTC

BT Retail may offer you Option 1, 2 or 3 where FTTP is available, and limit your speeds articificially on option 1 and 2.

But if an address has FTTC it will not have the option of FTTP too.

If writing about FTTP I tend to use full fibre somewhere, and certainly would be the 'radio' phrase to emphasis the difference.

Interesting they call it option 3 and that the upload is 15Mb, isn't it supposed to be increasing to 20Mb on FTTC, why would it be lower on FTTP?

I'm guessing when the FTTC speed increase comes along their packages will look something like..

Option 1 - FTTC 40/2 or 80/10
Option 2 - FTTC 80/20
Option 3 - FTTP 100/15