so can you explain the choice to deploy FTTP?

Will it be a more expensive product and BT have decided my area is likely to pay the extra?

Do you live in Cornwall?

Openreach decide in each area what funding they have to deploy and the likely take up of the service- usually FTTC is the favoured option as its cheaper/faster to install then FTTP, which only has a small coverage area at current- most is in Cornwall.

Cornwall has a higher % of FTTP due to the large pot of money from BT and the EU- £132 million.
In most area's its Openreach commerical deployment so funding can only go so far and FTTC is the most cost effective way to get the greatest coverage in the shortess time.

Edited by deleted (Wed 11-Jul-12 14:46:51)

nope, i live in Milton Keynes, so it is densly populated town in all directions from the exchange (bradwell abbey exchange, though it is actually based in fishermead next to the town centre). There is no break in housing between the exchange and my house.

I should add that I'm on the edge of the densely populated stuff and that moving further from the exchange the next dense areas are likely to be connected to a different exchange (newport pagnell).

So, my munderstanding of the rollout and the 60% cabinet stuff etc means I could understand if we weren't getting fibre at all, but I can't understand why we would be getting FTTP.

There are 2 new housing developments being built between my house and the newport pagnell exchange, maybe this is playing some part in the plans?

edit: samknows says neither of these housing developments are on my exchange

Edited by deleted (Wed 11-Jul-12 15:17:16)

The price of a 40 Mbps or 80 Mbps FTTP service will generally be the same as with a 40 Mbps FTTC service. With FTTP you will gain from added options of 110Mbps and 300 Mbps.

Openreach has been careful to try and align its wholesale prices for the two services to be very much the same.

Openreach made a decision to do some FTTP areas, because it knows that this is the future in 20 to 30 years, just cannot justify doing it everywhere at present.

I have found the premises which has my postcode but is likely to be connected to the other cabinet, so my cabinet is the FTTP one.

I have tried checking BT infinity for a FTTP in Milton Keynes which has a phase of 3 on the spreadsheet, and fibre isn't available for this postcode.

Will ALL phase 3s of a specific exchange get done before phase 4s etc, and so should I be planning my retirement before thinking an 8b phase is gonna get done?