More Info On BT's FTTx Programs

Is here,

Being someone rather interested in upstream speeds I do note that it specifically mentioned 10Mbit on FTTN, which is nice!

Super-fast Fibre Access has been designed to be an attractive
proposition for the widest possible customer base. It�s being
delivered in two ways, over a:
� Part fibre, part copper infrastructure (Fibre to the Cabinet)
capable of delivering download speeds of up to 40Mb and
upload speeds of up to 10Mb
� Pure fibre infrastructure (Fibre to the Premises) capable
of delivering download speeds of up to 100Mb and upload
speeds of up to 10Mb.

Etc, etc.

That's a good read .

We are talking here about BT who do way too little too late. To quote from their own document:

The speed of rollout of Fibre to the Cabinet (40% of UK homes
and businesses should have access by 2012) is due to the fact that
there�s no need to replace the copper pairs running from customer
premises to Openreach street cabinets.

Don't expect any normal FTTP telecom services anytime soon to arrive in the UK, certainly not from BT, they don't have a longterm vision nor business sense as regards desperately needed telecom services here. FTTP is something for a longterm investment strategy, not something for BT who is mainly interested in pleasing its short term shareholder's interests, rather than doing a genuine infrastructure development.

In reply to a post by JNeuhoff:

We are talking here about BT who do way too little too late. To quote from their own document:

The speed of rollout of Fibre to the Cabinet (40% of UK homes
and businesses should have access by 2012) is due to the fact that
there�s no need to replace the copper pairs running from customer
premises to Openreach street cabinets.

Don't expect any normal FTTP telecom services anytime soon to arrive in the UK, certainly not from BT, they don't have a longterm vision nor business sense as regards desperately needed telecom services here. FTTP is something for a longterm investment strategy, not something for BT who is mainly interested in pleasing its short term shareholder's interests, rather than doing a genuine infrastructure development.

Good point their spiel which states "attractive proposition for the widest possible customer base" was enough to make me laugh....... "Widest possible", translated from BT spiel that equals the areas we can be bothered with and if you are living up a mountain even though its "possible" to supply you, you can forget it.

In reply to a post by CARPETBURN:

In reply to a post by JNeuhoff:

We are talking here about BT who do way too little too late. To quote from their own document:

The speed of rollout of Fibre to the Cabinet (40% of UK homes
and businesses should have access by 2012) is due to the fact that
there�s no need to replace the copper pairs running from customer
premises to Openreach street cabinets.

Don't expect any normal FTTP telecom services anytime soon to arrive in the UK, certainly not from BT, they don't have a longterm vision nor business sense as regards desperately needed telecom services here. FTTP is something for a longterm investment strategy, not something for BT who is mainly interested in pleasing its short term shareholder's interests, rather than doing a genuine infrastructure development.

Good point their spiel which states "attractive proposition for the widest possible customer base" was enough to make me laugh....... "Widest possible", translated from BT spiel that equals the areas we can be bothered with and if you are living up a mountain even though its "possible" to supply you, you can forget it.

True - OTOH even you ought to be prepared to admit that BT have done more than any other telecoms country in the UK (and maybe the world) to bring broadband to everyone. Some people have pretty crappy speeds, it's true, but there's not many people who are forced to use a modem.

A good read. Mostly fluff and bumph but well enough put together. It'll be interesting to see how much of it actually comes to fruition and how much of the country gets coverage.

In reply to a post by Andrue:

True - OTOH even you ought to be prepared to admit that BT have done more than any other telecoms country in the UK (and maybe the world) to bring broadband to everyone. Some people have pretty crappy speeds, it's true, but there's not many people who are forced to use a modem.

Wide and shallow is the BT / UK way.

http://www.totaltele.com/view.aspx?ID=448782 this sheds a little more light on the subject, pun not intended.

To quote from the article provided by your link:

BT Openreach will undertake technical trials of FTTP brownfield deployments in Highams Park London this year and next and in July this year started operational pilots in Muswell Hill, London and Whitchurch, Cardiff.

Basically more show trials, and no real FTTP deployments in the next few years. BT can't let go off copper.

BT have done more than any other telecoms country in the UK (and maybe the world) to bring broadband to everyone

Depends on how you define 'broadband'. BT has wasted many years and money investing in yesterday's technology for tomorrow's needs based upon a last-mile copper-lines infrastructue inherited by them. BT didn't dig up roads on a large scale to replace the last-mile copper lines, unlike what the cable campanies did some years ago. The least BT should do in the interim is to offer far more affordable leased line solutions so that at least business customers can enjoyhalf-decent telecom services.