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Do't forget to factor in both disconnection and reconnection charges!

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In reply to a post by pcoventry76:

Strange how T-mobile wormed it's way into getting 4g before the others.
We will see how reliable 4G is when it gets going and have a lot of traffic on.

I thought it was a good move by EE (formerly Orange who now owns T-mobile) to apply to use the spare 1800MHz capacity created by the closure of T-M base stations at shared sites for 4G.

At the end of the day it forced Ofcom to bring the auctions for the 800MHz and 2.6GHz bands forward by 6 months to keep O2 and Vodafone happy.

My exchange is meant to have fibre calendar year 2013 according to their website. Is that actually likely though or are they massively behind in their rolleout plans?

Edited by bobble_bob (Mon 08-Oct-12 22:21:01)

The evidence so far is that they are on track across the nation. They're a long way ahead of the number of properties that have access to SFBB: The 2012 target was 10 million, which they reach in May.

However, some exchanges get announced as RFS (ready for service) late, while some (fewer) are early. Individual cabinets vary more wildly, and some can still not be in service a year after they've been installed.

It seems that cabinet delays, when they happen, can take weeks or months to sort out - each individual problem adding between 2 weeks & 3 months to sort out (the period between bursts of activity seemingly because of delays in organising roadworks).

For the next year, the challenge will be staying on track with the BDUK work coming on stream.

In reply to a post by WWWombat:

It seems that cabinet delays, when they happen, can take weeks or months to sort out - each individual problem adding between 2 weeks & 3 months to sort out (the period between bursts of activity seemingly because of delays in organising roadworks).

For the next year, the challenge will be staying on track with the BDUK work coming on stream.

Hopefully the BDUK driven work is as smooth as the current commercial bt or work, I'm not 100% happy that we are using tax payers money to fund this but its better than to wait till 2018 for vdsl to come to those who won't otherwise get that speed increase.

Edited by deleted (Tue 09-Oct-12 16:44:04)

In reply to a post by Taras:

Hopefully the BDUK driven work is as smooth as the current commercial bt or work, I'm not 100% happy that we are using tax payers money to fund this but its better than to wait till 2018 for vdsl to come to those who won't otherwise get that speed increase.

and it is all going to one company who seems to be getting all the contracts, BT, I detest paying BT anything and to think that peoples tax is now fudning the company.