In reply to a post by Chippy_Tea_:

I understand Openreach want all but the headends gone by 2025 ish.

Which would need the vast majority on some sort of street based fibre or full fibre connection.

I have already googled G.fast today whats a headbend?
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Not all FTTC cabs terminate at the nearest exchange (often too small), they will terminate at a headend exchange which is the nearest main (major) exchange. In my case nearest exchange is Inverness Culloden (NSICL) which is just the road from where I live, however fibre connections in my area (both FTTC & FTTP) all terminate at the main (headend) exchange in town, Inverness Macdhui (NSIMD).

edit: beaten to it by lee111s

Edited by deleted (Mon 14-Aug-17 20:43:09)

In reply to a post by Michael_Chare:

In reply to a post by Chippy_Tea_:

Are there a lot of places still unable to get fibre?

Depends what you mean by fibre. The term fibre is used to refer to FTTC where the broadband backhaul from a cabinet is by fibre and FTTP where the connection to a private or business premises is a fibre cable which then requires separately powered equipment at the end for voice calls.

FTTP can be much faster, does not suffer from distance degradation problems or cross talk and is probably more reliable. It is expensive to install compared to making use of an existing metal phone line.

I should have said - are there many places where customers still do not have the option to connect to fibre broadband but thanks for explaining.

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It's in the single figures of percentage now.

Work ongoing to have it at 95% available by 2020 I believe.

or 500 years from now.

By then I strongly believe it won't be a fibre solution. Humans either won't need the Internet (for various reasons) or it will be some form of quantum entanglement technology (or something we can't even imagine right now) - considering where comms technology was 500 years ago there is no telling what it might be in 500 years time.

However, I am a gambling man and so will happily bet that no matter what it is I won't be there to see it...

Thanks again Lee.

In reply to a post by ian72:

or 500 years from now.

- considering where comms technology was 500 years ago there is no telling what it might be in 500 years time.

The way Trump is going we many not be here in 500 hours.

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http://labs.thinkbroadband.com/local/

All depends on how you define fibre, 96.4% of UK premises now with VDSL2/FTTP/Cable options but this includes those who get no benefit from VDSL2. The physics drops the figure to 93.4% once you put in a minimum speed of 24 Mbps.

95% is end of 2017 target for over 24 Mbps option

In reply to a post by Chippy_Tea_:

The way Trump is going we many not be here in 500 hours.

That's between USA and North Korea (nothing to do with UK)

If a nuclear war was to break out, there'd be nothing left of the world.

Nah, none of it won't happen. The council of UN won't allow this. North Korea Kim Jong-un talk loads of [censored] and he is too scare to start it. He won't do it.