In reply to a post by lee111s:

Baring in mind G.fast pods only support 48 connections at the moment, 96 in future.

As usually the "available to" doesn't actually mean all could order it

That's pretty very poor by BT. Once 48 customers activated with g.fast that's it. U cannot order g.fast.

The 48 pods have space for the extra cards, just needs chipsets that will vector across 96 ports, i.e. pushing processing power to the limits

Its so small that I cannot talk about an average speed even if I cautioned about a small sample size, i.e. too small to even dare with a caveat

In reply to a post by lee111s:

If an average of 200 premises past per cab, that's 1600 a month!

300 PP is still 1100 cabs per month.

Worse than that ...

While the commercial FTTC rollout seemed to average out at 300 lines per cabinet, this time only the closest one-third of properties will be able to benefit.

At one hundred premises within range of each G.Fast pod, I make it 3.3k pods per month, 770 pods per week.

At the peak of FTTC, BT probably managed 250-300 cabinets per week.

In reply to a post by adslmax:

That's pretty very poor by BT. Once 48 customers activated with g.fast that's it. U cannot order g.fast.

How many people do you think want G.Fast?

Right now there are 8.1m NGA customers, spread across perhaps 83,000 FTTC cabinets. That averages out at less than 100 subscribers per cabinet.

And maybe only a third or half of them will be in range of G.Fast.

It's not poor of BT. It's a limitation of current technology.

A g.fast cab can be installed within a couple of days I reckon, not weeks and months like fibre cabs. There's no wayleaves, permissions, power company delays etc involved.

There should't be many G.fast pods that are delayed for matters outside of Openreach's control.


The fibre and copper are already super close by, in ducts which will very unlikely be blocked due to then only being a max of 7-8 years old.

Closest one third....mmm

28,000 cabinets can deliver 10 million premises and that is allowing for distances

or if you want to optimise it so you only do the cabinets where almost everyone on a cabinet will get G.fast option this rises to 38,000

http://labs.thinkbroadband.com/local/g-fast-map-model

The distribution of premises per cabinet is a LONG way from uniform.

Max, what will you do if your cabinet gets G.fast and you already need to be a customer of BT/TalkTalk to get invited to their trial?

You might end up with no ports by the time Plusnet offer it.

Have to go with BT if PN isn't offer me of g.fast on time.