BT is rolling out FTTH!

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BT have announced that next spring they will be upping the download speeds on their fibre-to-the-home/premises (FTTH/P) broadband products to 300Mbps, a speed boost that will put them well out in front with the fastest broadband offering. BT will also make changes to their fibre-to-the-cabinet (FTTC) broadband services by doubling the downstream speeds up to 80Mbps. This FTTC boost had been talked about previously and both announcements will be welcome news for those who are looking for cutting edge broadband speeds.

Rollout of FTTH is only expected to reach around 25% of the country, whilst 2/3rds should be covered by 2015 by what BT call 'fibre broadband' which includes fibre-to-the-home and fibre-to-the-cabinet products. Currently only 6 exchange areas have been announced for the commercial 'early deployment' launch of FTTH at the end of this month, so BT are obviously keen to show the potential that this product holds in the future. It should be remembered that speeds on the FTTC product are still limited by the distance from your property to the cabinet in the road. For many, this is quite short so high speeds will be seen, but they may not be right up there at the 80meg limit.
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http://www.thinkbroadband.com/news/4809-bt-announce-300meg-speeds-for-ftth-in-the-spring.html
Finally we have some good news for a change! It will be wholesaled as well so there will be some decent healthy competition. I for one welcome gigabit uncapped low latency FTTH!
 
Its BT, it will be a 3rd of that, for any 1hr a day (an hour defined as any 60 minute period between the hours of 0345 and 0445 tuesday to wednesday), for 5 people, in central london.

BT is so bad around here you cant even make land line calls let alone get decent broadband.
 
atpbx said:
BT is so bad around here you cant even make land line calls let alone get decent broadband.
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Seriously where do you live? I find it very difficult to believe you can't make a landline call and suspect you are being more than a little senstionalist!

Dr House said:
is there any real world difference between 24mb/p and 300mb/p for the average day to day person?
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The very low take up figures for BT Infinity would suggest that the average consumer is happy with their speed, we have had BT Infinity available for nearly a year now and I have no interest in it as I don't feel my current 6 meg line is limiting me.

Gammawolf said:
Yes, you spend less time waiting for downloads to finish.
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Not everyone in the UK is downloading a few hundred GB's from Newsgroups every month in fact the majority are not, as said above the low take up of BT infinity says that the masses are not desperate for faster broadband to get the latest Jedward Album from iTunes a bit quicker!
 
FTTH.. yeah right, BT have not even put 21CN in at my local exchange yet, so I'm hardly gonna get excited about this announcement.
 
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Getting my FTTH installed later on this month :)

Going from a 1.7mb connection to upto 100mb!

Its only for a trial up to the end of December, i should find out the prices for the full product in January.

This is for most homes in Milton Keynes which connect to the "Bradwell Abbey" exchange.
 
This can only mean VM will drop their prices for 100Mb cable so I can upgrade from 30Mb!
 
I love the fact that they are talking about increasing the speed of the people already able to recieve FTTC what about the people that can still only get a 2mb connection!!!! Fibre is in my local exchange but not at my cab, i live on a brand new estate and i cant believe that they would look to increase speeds before getting everyone up to speed first
 
My exchange has had FFTC since Summer 2010.... Im about 1km away and they still haven't connected up the shiny new cabinets that are starting to gather bird poo and dust.
 
S@njay said:
This is for most homes in Milton Keynes which connect to the "Bradwell Abbey" exchange.
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I'm gutted as I grew up in a house that on a good day could see into the first floor of the Bradwell Abbey exchange. Since I moved from there I've had nothing but completely pants ADSL at every house I've lived in!
 
Efour2 said:
My exchange has had FFTC since Summer 2010.... Im about 1km away and they still haven't connected up the shiny new cabinets that are starting to gather bird poo and dust.
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If it makes you feel any better, BT's service for business clients is almost as bad as their consumer service. Broken promises, failure to meeting agreed service levels, complete lack of communication between their internal departments... this is what BT are all about.
 
I like BT :D 400GB a month with no hassles, 37Mb down, 8Mbps up. Can't wait for the 80mbps upgrade and hopefully the FTTH after that, my area seems fairly high up in the upgrade list as i've had FTTC for over a year now. Time will tell.
 
They should be made to go back and install 21CN properly in the cabinets they've missed out.

I mean what the hell is the point in offering those already on 40MBit a jump to 100s of MBits when there are still people around who can't even get 1MBit?

It really boils my urine. I think something similar should happen to Virgin regarding helping to get faster internet out to smaller towns and villages, rather than let the two of them have some stupid inner-city broadband race while everyone else is stuck below the national average.
 
Tute said:
They should be made to go back and install 21CN properly in the cabinets they've missed out.

I mean what the hell is the point in offering those already on 40MBit a jump to 100s of MBits when there are still people around who can't even get 1MBit?

It really boils my urine. I think something similar should happen to Virgin regarding helping to get faster internet out to smaller towns and villages, rather than let the two of them have some stupid inner-city broadband race while everyone else is stuck below the national average.
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Because comparatively it involves the click of a button to increase the speeds from 40Mbps to 80Mbps opposed to the massive job of installing fibre optics and digging up the roads to install elsewhere.
 
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