Probably not ADSL2+ is a dying beast, slowly but the growth is in the GEA services.

ADSL2+ will be around for a long time. Plus, the cost of DSLAM equipment is getting cheaper. BTWS is very expensive for traffic. It makes financial sense to move customers onto your own equipment in the footprint you have.

Zen have chosen to do this in the 200 exchanges they went to. They also offer other services from the exchanges they have a presence, again because its a lot cheaper to use their own backhaul than someone else's.

http://www.samknows.com/broadband/llu/zen

http://www.zen.co.uk/latest-news/zen-internet-invest...

Edited by Geordish (Mon 10-Mar-14 16:51:10)

A POP is a different matter to offering ADSL2+ via a MSAN the Zen article talks of "local exchange POP network to deliver Ethernet services" which is very different and I suspect the SamKnows is just listing those pops rather than where ADSL2+ is available.

Certainly if ADSL2+ is at the 200 locations from a Zen MSAN, then why is there not an unlimited ADSL2+ product, like there is for FTTC?

No idea. If it was me, I would just offer the 3 products across all backhaul technologies.

In reply to a post by MrSaffron:

A POP is a different matter to offering ADSL2+ via a MSAN the Zen article talks of "local exchange POP network to deliver Ethernet services" which is very different and I suspect the SamKnows is just listing those pops rather than where ADSL2+ is available.

I can confirm the Samknows list is accurate and shows where we have deployed our own DSLAM.

And are providing ADSL2+ services from the DSLAM?

In reply to a post by MrSaffron:

And are providing ADSL2+ services from the DSLAM?

Yes.