In reply to a post by XGS_Is_On:

In reply to a post by seb:

I've heard from providers (who won't go on-the-record) that 900Mbps or 100Mbps services won't hugely affect usage so it doesn't cost more to provide faster services (when you're talking altnet full fibre) in the sense of actual data usage.

Sorry for replying to something so late. I guess it makes sense they won't want to go on the record but it's pretty well known in capacity planning. The major expense is having to have the empty capacity there for users to burst into. As cable companies found out when providing tier uplifts usage doesn't go up proportionally to burst and after a point doesn't budge. Almost everyone does the same things faster.

Init7 in Switzerland epitomise this. Same price for 10 or 25 Gbit, customer just pays for the SFP28 optics.

In reply to a post by binary:

I wonder if this might be GoFibre 'reserving' their place on the poles, pending a proper installation. I think I've read about this sometimes happening with PIA, a kind of altnet 'race for (pole) space'.

In reply to a post by jabuzzard:

GoFibre surveyed Tayport in August/September 2021, I signed a contract with them in December 2021. They started doing some actual work last year, but I am still waiting to go live. The box has been hanging from the telegraph pole with cable ties for months now. But they work at an utter snails place. There is a draw rope for a pole that was fitted in August 2023 going by the label on it that is waiting to be used and the likely reason I still don't have service.