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Which local authority?
Some seem to be just ticking boxes and others appear to be much more into the project
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Bucks mostly
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I'd agree. SMEs (but more towards the small end) with internet fall in to one of two camps in my experience:
1) The ones that don't really care, get whatever BT offers them for as cheap as possible [I know a small TV production firm in London that has a ADSL2+ business line and the boss is a bit old fashioned so just pays for couriers to send DVDs and Blurays round London - madness]
2) The ones that do, and go for leased lines.
While I am sure there are people in the middle (who care, but don't want to spend the £k on a leased line for faster speeds), the vast majority don't.
Joe Bloggs accounting ltd might have 20 users, but if all they are doing is sending files round by email (often locally, via a local exchange server), they're not going to be knocking the doors down for BT to install fibre.
Ironically, a small family probably has more demand for broadband than a 10 person office these days. Video streaming, gaming downloads, music chews up a lot of bandwidth, people sitting on salesforce and excel all day don't.
PS: I am definitely aware of exceptions, especially small creative businesses which are really hurt by bad ADSL upload speeds and often will not have the money for a leased line.
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As if by magic
http://www.thinkbroadband.com/news/5690-bucks-and-he...
The maps on the state aid page are worth a check, and if your area is grey or black then it suggests either (a) a mistake or (b) Openreach (or someone else) has plans to provide service in the area.
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yes the majority of isps do 'appear' to be focusing on consumer takeup. On the infrastructure side such as openreach skipping business park areas I suspect thats to protect the leased line market.
The fix is probably subsidisation, those super cities picked by the government on their scheme are about improving connectivity for business areas, so those areas I expect business areas to get FTTC/P but the cities not picked unless the councils themselves put the money in or the businesses it will be the same as now probably.
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Quite surprised by the general feeling on this matter being expressed in this thread, I would have thought there would be high demand for FTTC amongst small businesses around the country.
I work at a satellite branch of a smallish engineering firm where we often need to do fairly simple things that are painful due to the poor download speed we have combined with the poor upload speed at main office. Even saving small changes on large spreadsheets takes around 1 minute....becomes pretty frustrating when you have to make changes to that spreadsheet quite a few times every day. Then theres transferring project folders, can be anything from 500MB to 2GB. Have to leave them running over night, its like the dark ages!
Theres no way we could justify a leased line but I think we'd gladly pay a premium for a business based FTTC service. I really cant imagine our experience is that unique. There has to be many, many small businesses in similar situations crying out for FTTC.
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Openreach's aim at the moment is "properties passed", for all sorts of reasons - with politics being an important factor. They make a tidy profit anyway.
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Quite surprised by the general feeling on this matter being expressed in this thread, I would have thought there would be high demand for FTTC amongst small businesses around the country.
I work at a satellite branch of a smallish engineering firm where we often need to do fairly simple things that are painful due to the poor download speed we have combined with the poor upload speed at main office. Even saving small changes on large spreadsheets takes around 1 minute....becomes pretty frustrating when you have to make changes to that spreadsheet quite a few times every day. Then theres transferring project folders, can be anything from 500MB to 2GB. Have to leave them running over night, its like the dark ages!
Theres no way we could justify a leased line but I think we'd gladly pay a premium for a business based FTTC service. I really cant imagine our experience is that unique. There has to be many, many small businesses in similar situations crying out for FTTC.
Exactly my feelings, and what I see all the time in smaller SMEs. Thanks for the support.
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