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Superfast broadband for cornwall
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Ole Jethro be goin' nuts.
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Is this not the new FTTP lines which have already begun in Keynes?
Happening in a few selected areas for testing as far as i know. We need it i suppose, quite far behind Korea and Japan.
Happening in a few selected areas for testing as far as i know. We need it i suppose, quite far behind Korea and Japan.
In Cornwall it's going to be a mix of FTTP and FTTC.
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I wish i was one of the lucky few to get FTTP in my area. Full HD movie? Yeah wait a minute....literally!
Don't know the ins and outs as I'm just a techy, but I know where I work has been doing a lot with this kind of thing
http://www.press.southwestrda.org.u...cornish-economy-and-the-way-it-does-business/
http://www.press.southwestrda.org.u...cornish-economy-and-the-way-it-does-business/
I kinda disagree with it not making comercial sense. BT are receiving EU funding for this project, Cornwall qualifies for this funding as we are still below the poverty line and are the only county in England to qualify for this.
Cornwall currently makes up a large percentage of users whose braodband falls into the "Final Third" so by attacking these areas now BT will be that much closer to completing there promise of x% of homes having 3Mbs or faster broadband by 2014 (or whenever it was)
So really it makes great comercial sense BT are able to enable a large majority of final third Britain with fast broadband thus filling there quotas, they can also enable cornwall with Superfast broadband at about 40% of the cost due to EU funding. EU get to help bring Cornwall above the poverty line by helping BT install the broadband making approx 4000 jobs in the process
I guess the only way that doesn't make commercial sense is if you live in a bigger city with broadband stuck at only 8-24Mbs
Cornwall currently makes up a large percentage of users whose braodband falls into the "Final Third" so by attacking these areas now BT will be that much closer to completing there promise of x% of homes having 3Mbs or faster broadband by 2014 (or whenever it was)
So really it makes great comercial sense BT are able to enable a large majority of final third Britain with fast broadband thus filling there quotas, they can also enable cornwall with Superfast broadband at about 40% of the cost due to EU funding. EU get to help bring Cornwall above the poverty line by helping BT install the broadband making approx 4000 jobs in the process
I guess the only way that doesn't make commercial sense is if you live in a bigger city with broadband stuck at only 8-24Mbs
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FTTP won't lift off anyway, too much hard work! It's just greed to be honest, the average home internet user does'nt even need 10mbs.
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I don't think that BT's 21C Network with its "up to" 40MB down is the fastest in the world. Better than 512k though.
Some of us lucky ones have 100mb just around the corner with 200 & 400mb following. Thankfully not from BT.
what's the point - they will still be livestock bothering pub brawlers, just with high speed internet. It's not going to bring back tin mining or fishing, it's just going to show the Cornish how nice the rest of the world is.
It's so people and businesses will be attracted to the area, then we can moan about how Londeners took our jerbs and houses.
Remember how - back when 56k was the norm - most websites had lots of text and just a few pictures?
Now, thanks to broadband, we have lots of text, a few pictures, and animated flash adverts in every corner! It's progress, man.
Just think the possibilities for obnoxious advertising when 100mb is the norm
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Oh absolutley, i'm not complaining i'm just p*ssing on everyone's bonfire because FTTP is'nt going to happen any time soon. And i mean like within the next 30/40/50 years. It's just too much work for relatively little performance gain, obviously i don't mean gain as in pure gain because FTTP is in another league to FTTC but it's not worth the labour at the moment as we don't even maximise FTTC really. Once we throttle with FTTC then FTTP will be in full swing.
Stepped technology, part of the fun of being a techy!
And i mean like within the next 30/40/50 years. It's just too much work for relatively little performance gain, obviously i don't mean gain as in pure gain because FTTP is in another league to FTTC but it's not worth the labour at the moment as we don't even maximise FTTC really. Once we throttle with FTTC then FTTP will be in full swing. Stepped technology, part of the fun of being a techy!
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Here out in the sticks in Devon, I doubt I will see an upgrade from my 512kbs anytime this decade. Kind of annoying when you hear people getting annoyed with their 10mb internet. At the moment I would settle for 2mb, as it is I can't even watch a youtube video at 240p without it buffering.
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Your first in line though, the UK wants to get a solid base of 2mbs everywhere in the country. That's the plan though but i can't see it happening to be honest, i get 1MB at the mo. Can i see BT sorting it round this area so we get 5 or 10Mbs - can i heck! I don't live in the middle of nowhere either.
I'm not sure but i think you have to be invited so to speak. You can't order it. If you lucky enough to be in the testing area then they will invite you to try it out, think that's how it's working. For example, i think in Milton Keynes there was like 150 people that took it up when 11,000 were offered. Something bizarre anyway!
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Testing areas are going to be decided early next year. We should also get some sort of announcement then about the timetable for rolling it out.
Won't happen overnight, anyhow. I'd plan to still be using whatever you've got now for a couple years more.
Won't happen overnight, anyhow. I'd plan to still be using whatever you've got now for a couple years more.