Nope. That does not compute. If they were told the regulations required them to make this work or there was a compelling financial reason to make this work then they would make it work.

In reply to a post by Desmond:

Nope. That does not compute. If they were told the regulations required them to make this work or there was a compelling financial reason to make this work then they would make it work.

Yup, all they'd have to do is repudiate Maxwell's equations� piece of cake.

In reply to a post by Desmond:

if the Queen was on an exchange only line at Buckingham Palace (rather than an outreach worker for homeless people living in an over priced ex-council flat on the other side of the river) they would all be solved instantly with a bit of metal shielding and some off the shelf kit that in the scheme of things costs tuppence a line.

No, they would just build her her very own pair of cabs just outside the walls of Buck House (or even inside to preserve state secrets).

Feel free to explain why other countries have no problem installing VDSL kit inside their exchanges.

The past is a foreign country, they do things differently there.

A little check on one site for the line in question just now says "Fibre broadband is not available... take Broadband now and upgrade to fibre broadband when it's available." Dunno about you, but to me that suggests that it will be available in a reasonable time frame.

No suggestion there of the reality for the potential customer which is to all intents that there are no plans for it to become available anytime soon.

Am I completey alone in thinking fibre (or the potential for it) is being miss-sold to consumers?

In reply to a post by Desmond:

A little check on one site for the line in question just now says "Fibre broadband is not available... take Broadband now and upgrade to fibre broadband when it's available."

I'm sure Her Majesty will be able to get it expedited!

Talking about time, it's a little after 2.00pm in New Zealand (my sister has just reminded me with a photo of her in the garden). Apparently, apart from a sub tropical climate, in the Bay of Plenty, they also have anti-VDSL interference fields in their exchanges. Maybe we live in the wrong time zone or maybe anti interference technology in New Zealand is more than 13 hours ahead of us or maybe these strange anti-VDSL phenomena do not affect telephone exchanges in the antipodes.

Edited by Desmond (Sat 25-Jan-14 01:12:01)

We don't make the rules. The EU makes the rules and we just gold-plate them.

And gold is an excellent conductor .