In reply to a post by codsallandy:

Thank you for your helpful advice. I was completely unaware that there are other FTTC providers and apparently I can I can move to one of them. I didn't know that.

That's because like several hundred thousand others you will have fallen for the misleading "Infinity - only from BT". Infinity is just the name of BT's FTTC product, so of course it's only from them. Just like you can only get a Mondeo from Ford but there are plenty of competing cars.

Sky and TalkTalk are reluctant to promote 80/20 and they don't offer the even faster FTTP products.

BT Retail have obviously noticed this and now their standard product is faster than their competitors.

Oh look. BT website is now headlining

"We�ve upgraded BT Infinity 1 to speeds of up to 52Mb � that's up to 14Mb faster than before and quicker than both Sky and TalkTalk."


"Faster

Now with BT Infinity 1, get up to 52Mb � the fastest fibre speeds as standard. Do more online in a fraction of the time."

https://www.productsandservices.bt.com/products/infi...

Looks like it is Sky and TalkTalk's move.

Edited by deleted (Sat 16-Apr-16 22:23:44)

In reply to a post by partial:

Looks like it is Sky and TalkTalk's move.

Sky are offering 40/10 free for a year.

In reply to a post by kasg:

Nobody's potential speed will increase, the only people that will benefit are new Infinity customers who don't want to pay for 80/20 and existing Infinity 1 customers syncing at the maximum speed who want to take out a new contract to get a bit more.

Yes, the people who will benefit are those whose lines are capable of a bit more than 40mb/sec but not enough more to justify the extra cost of an 80mb/sec subscription.

I'd guess that this will be quite a large proportion of FTTC lines.

It's not often BT does something good so it's hardly fair to knock them when they do!

Only the 25GB usage allowance version and as people are want to remind me in news comments, still have to pay the voice line rental

Sky and TalkTalk don't offer Openreach FTTP full stop not even the up to 38 Mbps version

In reply to a post by MrSaffron:

Only the 25GB usage allowance version and as people are want to remind me in news comments, still have to pay the voice line rental

Sky fibre unlimited is only £10 per month.

In reply to a post by hoopla:

It's not often BT does something good so it's hardly fair to knock them when they do!

If they were just upgrading existing Infinity 1 customers I would agree that BT are doing it out of the goodness of their hearts, but customers have to take out a new contract to benefit.

Edited by kasg (Sun 17-Apr-16 17:06:51)

Interestingly, I went through the order journey at the Sky website and they advised they could not offer me anything more than 5meg adsl with no discount.

So I presume these deals are only in Sky LLU areas.

Anyone know if Sky offer FTTC in none LLU areas as in my village they are not offering anything other than adsl?

Doubt it