BT is rolling out FTTH!

ci_newman said:
I was chatting to a work colleague about this the other day, a large proportion of BT's consumer market has the notion that BT are obligated to spend £1000s to install fibre to their home / street cabinet and yet they ***** and whine when they are asked to pay more than £2.50 / month for it.
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That I understand, but it's still frustrating for us who are perhaps are only a few miles away from a town or city, who are still stuck at sub-3mb or lower. (National average is what 5-6?). We don't necessarily want FTTH/C for free, but it would be nice if the technology, even if not the cutting edge stuff, was rolled out wider, faster, to help increase overall speeds rather than just raising inner city hotspots.

I pay over £30 a month for internet so it's not like we all whinge and gripe about £2.50 extra either.
 
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ci_newman said:
I was chatting to a work colleague about this the other day, a large proportion of BT's consumer market has the notion that BT are obligated to spend £1000s to install fibre to their home / street cabinet and yet they ***** and whine when they are asked to pay more than £2.50 / month for it.

BT has their problems, their business model is not one of them. Want fast broadband, then buy a lease line FFS. You aren't entitled to anything :rolleyes:
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At last a man who speaks sense! It amazes me that people think they are entitled to super-fast broadband no matter where they live. I think if more people knew the true cost of providing fttc/ftth then they would realise why BT can't just provide it everywhere. When Thatcher privatised the utility industries in the 80's that spelled the end of the days of providing anything other than a basic service to everyone, now it's entirely down to the potential profitability of providing a new service. The take-up of Infinity has actually been very low much to BT's annoyance so this will probably slow down the further roll-out of fttc for the next few years. In reality most people don't need/want a high speed connection and it's mainly us computer geeks ( a very small proportion of the population) who really want/need such a service. For those who live in the sticks and are stuck on <1m adsl or even dial-up I do feel sorry for them but it's their choice to live in the countryside and you have to accept you can't have everything you can get in a city/town. With 4g technology, improved satellite broadband and government subsidy of fttc/ftth in certain areas we will eventually see all but the most remote areas served by some form of high speed broadband, some people are just going to have to be patient!
 
Rossuk89 said:
Why don't they spend the money getting more areas with 20MB+ fibre optic before giving some areas 300MB+ lol
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The area's getting ftth are generally new build estates that are close to BT exchanges, this means it's fairly cheap for BT to provide ftth rather than fttc. It probably works out cheaper in many instances as they have to run fibre + new copper cables to provide fttc anyway (+ two cabinets which increases the costs significantly).
 
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