News - BT Infinity to launch 300Mbps "supercharged" broadband

[HEXUS]

This Fibre to the Premises (FTTP) service will cost £50 per month.

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[BiblicalShower]

Maybe they should focus on actually upgrading all the cabinets and exchanges so the areas like mine that were supposed to be upgraded to fibre 'around June 2012' and still haven't, instead of new package after new package.

[Jimbo75]

Yep, me and 25% of the rest of the population will still be on < 3 MB/s while the "national average" skyrockets.

[Phage]

I wrote to my MP on exactly that point. Waiting for a reply....

[NecronomicoN]

My ISP is guilty of that BS. Promised us broadband (not even fiber, just plain old coaxial broadband) by 2010. 2011 rolled up and they reneged, claiming the infrastructure was too expensive. So here I am in 2013, still stuck on ADSL, slower than 98% of the country, while they keep dreaming up faster and faster services and ignoring us out here. Yes, I'm bitter. But I own this house and I'm not moving.

[watercooled]

Releasing this package doesn't necessarily need any/much extra infrastructure (depending on uptake); the GPON network already supports ~2Gbps downstream, 1Gbps upstream per node, so it's more a case of 'why not' than diverting funds from elsewhere.

[TheAnimus]

I wrote to my MP on exactly that point. Waiting for a reply....

Well it certainly wasn't helped by the insane subsidy of rural broadband.

Have a look at how FTTP exchanges have been chosen:
http://blog.networkunion.co/blog/bid...-map-and-costs
(scroll to the map).

Basically tax payers money, paid for fewer people to get a good service. Sure, people on these rural exchanges get a better service now, all 15 of them. Meanwhile in large city areas very large numbers of people get terrible highly congested speeds. Yey for subsidies!

[Spreadie]

BT Infinity to launch 300Mbps "supercharged" broadband

...traffic shaped down to 2.3Mbps and capped at 30GB per month.

probably

[Phage]

Not even as good as that. I live in a small town ~6k people, and are 'officially designated' as rural. We now have the luxury of ADSL2, but we are not even on the plans for any rollout of anything in the forseeable future.

[KrisWragg]

With this FTTP will it still require a phone line though? Currently I have BT Infinity and its costing me about £40 a month due to line rental and internet.

Also, 300mbit down and only 20mbit up? Surely they could make it 300/100!

[RWJP]

My ISP is guilty of that BS. Promised us broadband (not even fiber, just plain old coaxial broadband) by 2010. 2011 rolled up and they reneged, claiming the infrastructure was too expensive. So here I am in 2013, still stuck on ADSL, slower than 98% of the country, while they keep dreaming up faster and faster services and ignoring us out here. Yes, I'm bitter. But I own this house and I'm not moving.

ADSL is Broadband...

[NecronomicoN]

Anything that travels over antique copper phonelines ain't broadband.

[Phage]

ADSL is Broadband...

Broadband is a speed definition not a technology. If you get ADSL at 100kbs is it still broadband ?

TBF there are no clear defitions - although clearly the government don't have a clue.

http://www.publications.parliament.u...ni/41/4106.htm

"First, it has to be said that in a field quite so riddled with jargon and industry branding as broadband, it has been singularly unhelpful for the Government to use a term as vague as 'superfast,' and in so doing, to give it quite such a flexible meaning. By our count, they have used three varying definitions:

· In its early guidance to local authorities, the meaning was clear: "BDUK has defined superfast broadband as having a potential headline access speed of at least 20Mbps";[59]

· Later, in the glossary of its delivery model, "BDUK defines superfast broadband infrastructure as infrastructure capable of delivering speeds higher than 24Mbps, in line with the Ofcom definition";[60]

· More recently, in its guidance on state aid, this definition has shifted to "infrastructure capable of delivering superfast broadband speeds (meaning speeds of 30 Mbps or in any event more than 24 Mbps)";[61]

· Furthermore, the BT Infinity product used to deliver 'superfast' in Cornwall only guarantees a minimum of 15Mbps. "

[shaithis]

Anything that travels over antique copper phonelines ain't broadband.

I'm sure those of us with FTTC @ 80MB would beg to differ

Most (pretty much all) business networks are based on copper cables as well.

[Phage]

There's a downlaodable file of min/Avg/Max speeds by postcode from Ofcom here.
http://maps.ofcom.org.uk/broadband/
My postcode has average speed ranges from 0.4mbs to 16.8mbs. However a lot of outliers have been excluded as insufficient data. So tough biscuits if you live in a group of houses/new development just outside town.

[NecronomicoN]

I'm sure those of us with FTTC @ 80MB would beg to differ

Most (pretty much all) business networks are based on copper cables as well.

"Fiber to the x (FTTX) is a generic term for any broadband network architecture using optical fiber to replace all or part of the usual metal local loop used for last-mile telecommunications. The term is a generalization for several configurations of fiber deployment, ranging from FTTN (fiber to the neighborhood) to FTTD (fiber to the desk)."

Sounds like a hybrid.