I have no wish to go fibre. It will have to be very cheap to persuade me to move. I suspect I am not alone.

In reply to a post by dect:

Sorry, didn't realise, no offence meant.


LOL, don't apologise, no offence taken, Just got no interest in it, working in retail don't help

In reply to a post by Zarjaz:

No, people seem to want choice, want it all cheap as chips, or just don’t want to upgrade even if they can. 😉 One size does NOT fit all

But Fibre from some providers is the same price as FTTC, unless they go for now broadband, where the FTTC package seems to be one of the cheapest around at £21 a month. It is not price that is the problem for me, as I could go for Plusnet fibre at the same speed and slightly cheaper than I am on now. It is a hassle, but once Fibre is installed, it is only a new ONT.

But i agree, one size don't fit all, even if the telecoms company think it does.

In reply to a post by FibreBubble:

I have no wish to go fibre. It will have to be very cheap to persuade me to move. I suspect I am not alone.

No, you are not alone, but how cheap is cheap? Plusnet has 74Mb/s for £26, they do a slower one as well but they don't put that on their site, I presume that is just for their customers changing from FTTC. i want to spend as little as possible, Popped up to see my brother yesterday they have just had 400Mb/s fibre installed by BT, it is pretty impressive, I connected my phone and things happened superfast, well sometimes, depending on where I was in the house and they have these mesh networking. I would not pay the amount they are paying, i did tell them they canmove the router if they wanted to so that made them happy as they have Ethernet on their computers, but now they have to use Wi-fi on them as the router is not in a good place.

The other half have Gigaclear, now that is super fast but again pretty expensive, but she has little choice in the matter.

I just can't doing with the hassle, my brother had hassle when they put the splice in the wrong place and someone had to go back to sort it and also sort out a problem on the pole.
My FTTc is working fine, Maybe if I was still having the problem I was having a few years agao i would think about FTTP.

but how cheap is cheap

Fibre offers me nothing I want to do that I can't do already and has more unreliable telephony in my area of frequent power cuts. So in order for me to have some Kellys muppet lashing it around my house it will have to be under £20.

In reply to a post by FibreBubble:

but how cheap is cheap

Fibre offers me nothing I want to do that I can't do already and has more unreliable telephony in my area of frequent power cuts. So in order for me to have some Kellys muppet lashing it around my house it will have to be under £20.

Things may have been better under a previous Labour administration (we'll let others argue that point) but I'm not sure they would be better under any future Labour administration when its supporters are actively pursuing a race to the bottom.

In reply to a post by FibreBubble:

I have no wish to go fibre. It will have to be very cheap to persuade me to move. I suspect I am not alone.

Then do nothing until you are contacted by your provider saying the copper service is being withdrawn. This could be a while away.

Yep

Although, for some large providers, "do nothing" can be a very expensive option as they hike you up to out-of-contract pricing. You could be better off switching now to a provider that doesn't do that.

I imagine that eventually Openreach *will* be allowed to force the stragglers off copper services, in a similar way to forced PSTN withdrawal, but that hasn't been mooted yet.

In reply to a post by candlerb:

I imagine that eventually Openreach *will* be allowed to force the stragglers off copper services, in a similar way to forced PSTN withdrawal, but that hasn't been mooted yet.

It already happens today in a copper stop sell exchange area.
What happens is if FTTP is available and in a copper stop sell exchange then providers will only have FTTP products available to offer customers.
Also providers would need to migrate existing customers over to FTTP. Openreach have also increased prices to their copper based products.

Any copper based product would be rejected by Openreach.

Also to note if FTTP is available then the policy is FTTP products take a priority so providers may deliver the broadband service over FTTP for the same price.