Caporegime
Are you suggesting a new cable for each and every possible provider?
i hope they do split and the country starts to get it's act together delivering at least good speed BB to folk. 2 or 3mb connections in 2016 is a joke
I live in a brand new estate in a London suburb. Surrounded by fibre....
New estate doesn't have fibre. It's 2016 and imo new builds should have FTTP but not even FTTC is pretty unforgiving.
Every time I enquire as to when it's a different reason. I am even connected to a fibre enabled cabinet.
Last week I listened to the Chancellor go on about 300Mb internet across the UK and 5g. I can't even get a reliable 8mb connection on the outskirts of London.
5Mb doesn't cut it either.
If you live on a new build estate and you don't have FTTP then it's the fault of the developers. Too many of them will build then go "lol didn't think about that, anyway BT can you put some phone lines in please? Oh and the roads haven't been adopted yet and we didn't build the ductwork, see you later I'm off to count some money". It should form part of the planning approval with the ability for the local authority to impose fines for not complying.
The UK average is only 28.5mb. IMO It's much more important to be getting the people on 2-3mb onto proper ADSL2+ speeds.
Connection speed has something of diminishing returns, outside of downloading large files there wasn't really a noticeable difference in going from 20mb to 80mb. By comparison the 512kb-2mb-8mb-20mb jumps were very noticeable.
If you live on a new build estate and you don't have FTTP then it's the fault of the developers. Too many of them will build then go "lol didn't think about that, anyway BT can you put some phone lines in please? Oh and the roads haven't been adopted yet and we didn't build the ductwork, see you later I'm off to count some money". It should form part of the planning approval with the ability for the local authority to impose fines for not complying.
The UK average is only 28.5mb. IMO It's much more important to be getting the people on 2-3mb onto proper ADSL2+ speeds.
Connection speed has something of diminishing returns, outside of downloading large files there wasn't really a noticeable difference in going from 20mb to 80mb. By comparison the 512kb-2mb-8mb-20mb jumps were very noticeable.
Government should make it law now to lay copper and fibre to some kind of standardised box at the entrance to the development and BT are then required to connect to the boxes with as fast a connection as they can do in the area.
Give developers, or almost anyone, an excuse to cut corners and they will.
Reality is a developer building anything from 5 to 500 houses on an estate can afford to pay for 10k BT green boxes and fibre connections, but if they can save 10k they will, it shouldn't be an option.
The house i rent has been "In scope" now for over 14 months (According to the open reach website) I get 6mb in Streatham (Central London for those who don't know) friend who's less than a 10m walk gets Virgin Media 200mb....
ANYTHING
ANYTHING that can change this i'm happy with however realistically I know nothing will change.
We have an appalling habit in this country of trying to upgrade and improve on ancient crap rather than build new. Roads, Railways, Internet etc.
You can only polish a **** so much and that's apparently with our crappy internet service when we compare it to East Asian countries for example.
EDIT: I'm surprised that's filtered and crap isn't =/
Openreach is the company with the most I-dont-give-a-flying-*uck attitude that I know.
The have a captive market, the don't need to give a good service.
The UK average is only 28.5mb.
Not Openreach but we recently had VM digging up the street to lay "fiber" in out area. I don't mind digging up the garden and the road as long as there's a worthwhile improvement but they've just laid the same Co-axial cable as everywhere else. Why when your digging up the entire street and going through all that effort would you lay the same outdated cable when you could easily put in FTTP with little cost different but far superior long term gains
er.. because the council would then need to foot the bill for laying those pipes and access points. Duh. No council is ever going to swallow that upfront cost.
Not gonna happen. The council(s) would need to apply for a massive amount from central funding to pay for such a massive amount of cash. I don't care how much they make back - they simply cannot and will not get the funds to pay for it in the first place.