Will everything be fibre optic in the end?

Connections will be based on whatever technology allows a service to be provided at a price point that the market accepts. A lot of people want £5 per month broadband and consider a spend of over £25 for FTTC to be too high, so offering a service where they would have to pay for at least half a day for installation wouldn't ever get off the ground.

I'm sure eventually fibre will take over from copper, and it already has in a lot of new build estates and apartment buildings. The current rollout of FTTC is criticised for not being FTTP, but in reality that was never an option - the choice was between FTTC or doing nothing. Once fibre becomes cheaper to install (less time consuming, requiring less training etc) then it will be the natural replacement for copper.
 
Personally I see wireless options becoming more popular for mainstream as mobile devices take over and FTTP for those willing to offset the cost for a better connection. Laying/upgrading lines is expensive and you won't be seeing 100mbps £5 a month Internet anytime soon.
 
As the the land line comes more and more useless my the younger generation people in the future are more likely to pay 30 pound fibre the pay 17 line rental and 3 quid basic call plan and 10-15 pound for normal broadband
 
It's not a lot cheaper since 1st of December its 180 a year for most Virgin is taking increase Aswell in line rental talktalk did Aswell, I work in telecoms it's all we have to take about all day killer
 
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IIRC TalkTalk offer a 10% prompt payment discount that works out over the year the same as paying 12 months upfront.

APM said:
I was reading about how BT and others are now running fibre optic cabling alongside the copper telephone wires in many locations both here in the UK and abroad.
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Sean Williams(Group Director, Strategy, Policy & Portfolio, BT) appeared before a parliamentary Select Committee a couple of days ago, he was very clear what he thought about fibre. He stated it was simply too expensive to deploy nationally and that they were looking towards vectoring and G.fast as the future. So unless the government takes action BT will insist on using copper to deliver broadband until the bitter end. :confused:
 
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