why does openreach not provide same up and down speeds?

Because they don't want to. You ask a lot of questions where the answer is just "because that's a decision a company made".

Edit: Their only widely available competitor is Virgin Media, their gigabit plan is only 50Mbps up which is half the speed of Openreach FTTP. Once CityFibre are a big enough threat then I'd expect to see faster upload options.
 
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There's a few reasons.
  • As above, their main competitor offers only half of what they do.
  • Symmetrical upload/download providers cover a very small percentage of the UK.
  • It would eat into their leased line market.
  • Very few users would actually make use of >100 mbps upload speeds.
  • Those who do use require upload end up spending more money in order to get the fastest upload speed on their 900 Mbps package.
 
For FTTP then I think it's a marketing thing, for ADSL it is because of the technology. There are a limited number of RF channels I believe. You could allocate them such that it was symmetrical but because users generally download they gave more channels to the download side of things.
 
picnic said:
For FTTP then I think it's a marketing thing, for ADSL it is because of the technology. There are a limited number of RF channels I believe. You could allocate them such that it was symmetrical but because users generally download they gave more channels to the download side of things.
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BT could have rolled out a synchronous down/up speed product at the same speeds as the download speeds of ADSL instead of ADSL - but it would have been more costly for the consumer compared to most consumer needs and as Chris said eat into the leased/business market.
 
Rroff said:
Don't think they ever made a SDSL product over 2MBit/s though.
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Correct.

There was also the little known product TTB brought to market to rival it which didn't require s special line or modem, just a modem that could support Annex-M which was known as EBSA
 
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