In reply to a post by MHC:

I even use voice over them and once the delay is understood, conversation is not a problem either.

Yeah, I've spent months on boats working in North Sea using Geo sats for voice and data comms and you do get used to the voice delay but it needs both side of the conversation to understand the delay. Nowadays, people using VOIP dont normally expect a delay when calling their friend/family a few miles away on land so usually end up talking over each other on a high latency connection.

In reply to a post by 8skellerns:

Leicestershire county council is promoting it too : ( Mean while in the middle of north wales i have seen fibre to the distribution point being installed! Miles from any significant population!

Here in Cornwall, about 5 minutes from my house, FTTP is available for people whose houses are on tens of acres and who have to drive to their nearest neighbour!

BT's/BDUK's "FTTC at any cost, then maybe FTTP if it can't work, but probably satellite for the unlucky few" policy working well...

Satellite to me seems like a huge cop-out. Even a purpose built LTE network would be superior in many ways (and something BT could have done even before they bought EE, since they independently obtained 4G spectrum in the auction)

Edited by deleted (Mon 29-Feb-16 09:18:12)

I assume that "seconds away" is a reference to the inherent latency in geostationary satellite communications...

In reply to a post by TheEulerID:

I assume that "seconds away" is a reference to the inherent latency in geostationary satellite communications...

Brilliant

Would you be using VOIP in this situation? Don't think so.

is that same company who had a rep tell the committee that latency isnt a performance metric?
notice also the low usage limits.

Pretty sure that guy was Avanti and this leaflet is also "Powered by Avanti"

Not sure which situation you refer to ...?
Calling home when working offshore or calling friends/family when at home?
Pretty sure both of these happen all the time.