When will BT wake up and bite the bullet ????
Another research project to try and squeeze the last breath out of copper?
They are going have to move to FTTP at some stage
I am lucky in having Gigaclear installing FTTP in our village right now. Their technology uses conventional Gigabit Ethernet switching over single mode fibre. Proven technology and guaranteed performance over distance. Not years of research to get "near gigabit" to market, with a speed lottery depending on line quality and distance. What will the bandwidth requirements be then? I know that I won't need full gigabit symmetrical bandwidth when the Gigaclear service goes live next month, but it will future proof our village. BT/Openreach were faffing around with the BDUK subsidies and only proposing to upgrade the "easy" bits of their network which was all they could "afford". This would have left well over half of our village on ADSL. This was completely unacceptable to our community, which is why we campaigned for the FTTP solution.
I am also extremely annoyed that Openreach were allowed by the ASA to use the marketing term "Fibre Optic Broadband", when it very clearly isn't, it's FTTC with the last bit over copper and it's the copper that determines the speed.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
