BT announce first exchanges to get FTTC

I'm not on the list.. But I am on one of the Pilot exchanges.

Muswell Hill - London ;-)

I had forgotten it was coming so soon, surprised I have not heard anything.. I hope it is the whole of the exchange and not select addresses?
 
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Shaddow said:
I'm not on the list.. But I am on one of the Pilot exchanges.

Muswell Hill - London ;-)

I had forgotten it was coming so soon, surprised I have not heard anything.. I hope it is the whole of the exchange and not select addresses?
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Plan Status: Trial from May to June (for early adopters) at Muswell Hill
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Systems Deployment: EMP1023 – 18/19th April



http://www.openreach.co.uk/orpg/products/nga/downloads/NGA Forum 21-01-2009 Slide_deck.pdf


juicy info in that pdf. looks like we will have vdsl from June onwards.
 
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The Deuce said:
wow loads in the NE....NOT!
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Haha I was thinking exactly that! :mad: Typical ain't it.

EDIT: In an ideal world it would be nice to think they'd sit down and go, "let's roll the first lot out to places with poor broadband at the moment". Not let's upgrade the people that are fast and make them faster. Why not sort out the slower people first, those that are stuck with 1-2Mb.
 
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Firegod said:
Haha I was thinking exactly that! :mad: Typical ain't it.

EDIT: In an ideal world it would be nice to think they'd sit down and go, "let's roll the first lot out to places with poor broadband at the moment". Not let's upgrade the people that are fast and make them faster. Why not sort out the slower people first, those that are stuck with 1-2Mb.
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Because they need to recoup on their investment. So, like always, the places where there's most profit will generally get the most attention.
 
this is my exchange. think my house is in a yellow area. we'll see.
ironically closer to the X you are, is what you dont want (see red). distance from cab is all that matters.
i hope this is worst case, because the distances covered by green are tiny. i mean i can run from the cab to a yellow zone in seconds.



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I had a quick chat to the BT Openreach guys that were installing the new VDSL Cabinets in Muswell Hill. They recon it should be live in 6-8 weeks.

I has happy to find out my nearest caninet was only 30 feet from my house ;-)

Lots of good stuff here:

http://www.openreach.co.uk/orpg/news/news.do

Looks like it will be upto 60mb Download, (40mb standard)

2mb Upload by default and upgradeable to 15mb uploads ;-)

Bring it on.
 
...and theres me happy at finally getting a 1Mbit upstream on BT Broadband heh...

Prolly be ages til VDSL comes here :( but the cabinet is less than 100m from me when they do :D
 
Chelmsford - Essex
Watford - Hertfordshire
Hemel Hempstead - Hertfordshire
Leagrave - Bedfordshire
Luton - Bedfordshire
Canonbury - London
Chingford - London
Edmonton - London
Enfield - London
Highams Park - London
Tottenham - London
Thamesmead - London
Woolwich - London
Bury - Greater Manchester
Didsbury - Greater Manchester
Failsworth - Greater Manchester
Heaton Moor - Greater Manchester
Oldham - Greater Manchester
Rusholme - Greater Manchester
Belfast Balmoral - Belfast
Dean - Edinburgh
Glasgow Halfway - Glasgow
Glasgow Western - Glasgow Scotland
Cardiff - Cardiff
Taffs Well - Rhondda Cynon Taf
Halifax - West Yorkshire
Pudsey - West Yorkshire
Calder Valley - West Yorkshire

lol london and manchester
what happened to being rural areas first?
 
As has been said before, BT is a private company that needs to make as much money as possible for its shareholders. VDSL won't come straight to a rural area because there's just no money in it. The number of people who would sign up would never balance the costs of installing it. It'll be the take-up of VDSL in densely-populated areas like London and Manchester which will fund the expansion to more rural areas. It just doesn't work the other way round.

This is just one of the disadvantages you have to cope with if you live in a less urbanised area.
 
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Mattus said:
As has been said before, BT is a private company that needs to make as much money as possible for its shareholders. VDSL won't come straight to a rural area because there's just no money in it. The number of people who would sign up would never balance the costs of installing it. It'll be the take-up of VDSL in densely-populated areas like London and Manchester which will fund the expansion to more rural areas. It just doesn't work the other way round.

This is just one of the disadvantages you have to cope with if you live in a less urbanised area.
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i'm not after VDSL i'm after a decent broadband connection, the copper wire used in the system to my village is SO bad that it was considered too bad for the village phone system and they installed a narrowband sat dish :(.

goes back to the old we'll have 90% of the "country".... sry "countries population" covered in x years, so cover all the main cities and their sorted :mad:.

and whats the betting that rural areas will get VDSL if it happens to have someone living there thats high up the ladder in BT ?
 
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and whats the betting that rural areas will get VDSL if it happens to have someone living there thats high up the ladder in BT ?
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I work for Openreach (BT) and I know for a fact that this is not true, as has been said the most profitable areas will be covered first and eventually this should lead to more rural areas being covered. If you live anywhere even semi-rural (like the town I live in!) then you're likely to be waiting years for FTTC to arrive in your area.
 
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