Something that is quite interesting is that "smaller" ISPs seem to have concerns about the bandwidth that can be used from ultrafast speeds. Most of these ISPs will be purchasing contracted bandwidth from BT Wholesale at £48.55 (ex VAT) per Mbit/s per month, a price which hasn't changed in 7 years.

A 'heavy' user on Gfast could easily cost one of these smaller ISPs a lot of money (I guess none of them could offer an unlimited package though).

Edited by deleted (Mon 30-Jan-17 19:50:03)

£48.55 per month per Mbps?

Assuming you are talking throughput capacities not data transport on an MSIL that is huge. Even catering for one streaming 60Mbps user on an MSIL would be £2913. There will be thousands. Plus all the intermittent browsing users.

Did you mean 48.55 pence? Or perhaps Gbps?

Edited by RobertoS (Mon 30-Jan-17 19:58:47)

In reply to a post by RobertoS:

£48.55 per month per Mbps?

That's the contracted bandwidth cost for an ISP for carrying their data through the BT Wholesale network.

wow Gillingham, where every trial.. in the world.. has been so far

Edited by deleted (Mon 30-Jan-17 21:50:58)

In reply to a post by MrSaffron:

I thought Cuckoo Oak was in line for the new broadband trial, FTTP - Fibre to the Pigeon

No No NO!

I have been told, on a reliable source ( ) that Cuckoo Oak will be getting 10Gbps per house at a "special rate" of £21.49p a month. The people who live near the Spa will be on pot luck until 2155.

Honestly guv! :/

Edited by deleted (Mon 30-Jan-17 21:53:51)

In reply to a post by AndyHCZ:

In reply to a post by RobertoS:

£48.55 per month per Mbps?

That's the contracted bandwidth cost for an ISP for carrying their data through the BT Wholesale network.

https://www.btwholesale.com/assets/documents/Service...

Aggregation Point cost £40+VAT / Mbps / month.

In reply to a post by 23Prince:

wow Gillingham, where every trial.. in the world.. has been so far

Apart from the Ebbsfleet greenfield FTTP trial, the Docklands brownfield FTTP trial, the Cambridgeshire and Nottinghamshire G.fast trials, the Swindon FTTP 2 trial, the Deddington FTTP replacement trial, etc.

23prince

If an exchange has the right demographics and geographics for one trial of copper technology it will have those for most copper technologies.

In addition it will then have a local workforce used to dealing with new technology in a trial so will tend to always be at the top of the list for the next trial!

Same applies for fibre trial areas except once fibred they are often no longer suitable for the next trial. So it tends to be in the same larger geography but different actual site. Cambridge, Cherry Hinton, Camboure etc fit for these.

Cambourne was one of the first sites to be served by fibre only back in the 1990s using TPON as it was so far from an exchange! (Too far for decent voice over copper !) . BB was therefore not possible until FTTC or FTTP was used making it perfect for BB trials. Other Cambridge housing developments are similarly spread from exchanges so also good for trials.

In reply to a post by Ignitionnet:

In reply to a post by 23Prince:

wow Gillingham, where every trial.. in the world.. has been so far

Apart from the Ebbsfleet greenfield FTTP trial, the Docklands brownfield FTTP trial, the Cambridgeshire and Nottinghamshire G.fast trials, the Swindon FTTP 2 trial, the Deddington FTTP replacement trial, etc.

Yes - and Gillingham is once again in this trial, are the others?

At least 4 of those sites mentioned now have FTTP, why would they use g.fast there

(a point already covered by ignitionnet )