Is anyone in Bournemouth due to get 100Mb in the home?

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Not knowing the complete ins-and-outs of all this but surely all fibre means is that data shifts even faster and that bandwidth is still bandwidth and as a model the economics don't change (well, only to recoup the fibre investment costs).

So, in the home, we all get super speeds but no more downloadable bandwidth and since the ISP's rely on 'low use' users to make a profit and services like BBC iPlayer and ITV catchup pushing bandwidth consumption up, will this mean that prices are set to rise?
 
I'm not sure that dividing £30,000,000 by 88,000 is the best way to look at these figures - especially as the 88,000 number factors in businesses as well. Not to mention the fact that the figure probably pays for the infrastructure, with perhaps leaving some change behind for the costs to connect each customer to that infrastructure.
 
Ed said:
Not knowing the complete ins-and-outs of all this but surely all fibre means is that data shifts even faster and that bandwidth is still bandwidth and as a model the economics don't change (well, only to recoup the fibre investment costs).

So, in the home, we all get super speeds but no more downloadable bandwidth and since the ISP's rely on 'low use' users to make a profit and services like BBC iPlayer and ITV catchup pushing bandwidth consumption up, will this mean that prices are set to rise?
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Keep in mind that bandwidth for ISPs not using BT Centrals is *FAR* far cheaper than for those that do. And ignore VM's overloaded cable network for the moment too (it's old, whereas this will be new).
 
Aekeron said:
I'm not sure that dividing £30,000,000 by 88,000 is the best way to look at these figures - especially as the 88,000 number factors in businesses as well.
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My bad, the 88,000 is the number of homes. There'll no doubt be some businesses too, which'll reduce the cost a bit.
Wikipedia reckons the population of Bournemouth is 163,444, so that's still £184 for every single person there (and that's assuming 100% take up, which is optimistic)...
 
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