News - BT trumpets big fibre broadband roll-out plans

[HEXUS]

Cornwall and other places to get a speed boost.

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[usxhe190]

Is this gonna be "up to" speeds?

[Big Adam]

BT have been upgrading all the local cabinets in my area for the past couple of months.

Just checked the status of my local exchange (Totton near Southampton) and it's got a FTTC RFS date of 1st Dec 2010

Good news.......and the recent (cough) upgrade (cough) of the shockingly poor cabling between my drop wire and my master socket should hopefully mean I make the most of any free upgrade in service speeds.

[Pandora92]

Just to clarify, when we're talking about them rolling out "fast fibre" to those locations listed, do they mean FTTC or FTTP?

Sadly I presume it means FTTC, but I wouldn't exactly mind if I was wrong.

[caliston]

BBC Radio 4 'You and Yours' this afternoon suggested it was FTTH.

I thought £130m was cheap to do a full county's worth of FTTH including undersea cables to the Scilly Isles. But there's the '90% of homes' thing... if it were, say, Devon, I'd have expected them to do the easy bit - FTTH Plymouth and then claim that 50% of homes (or whatever) were covered. But Cornwall doesn't have such tight centres of population so it's not so easy to fiddle the figures in this way.

[decky1990]

Here, BT! What of Northern Ireland? Because you've just talked about Mainland Britain

[Big Adam]

Just to clarify, when we're talking about them rolling out "fast fibre" to those locations listed, do they mean FTTC or FTTP?

Sadly I presume it means FTTC, but I wouldn't exactly mind if I was wrong.

AFAIK, BT's current rollout policy is:
New build residential developments - FTTP/FTTH
Existing residential developments - FTTC

So if you want BB mainlined into your home........go buy a new house!

[Stoo]

I fiddled around with the list and google maps and came up with these:

Map: http://tinyurl.com/btfibrerollout
KML file: http://tinyurl.com/btfibrerolloutkml

Lincolnshire has nothing, East Anglia has bugger all, Scottish Highlands are out of luck, basically most of the country outside of London, Birmingham and Manchester are going to have to wait it out..

[aidanjt]

Here, BT! What of Northern Ireland? Because you've just talked about Mainland Britain

Northern Ireland? Where's that?

[TheAnimus]

so people who live in pointless places are complaining they live in pointless places?

Surely they should be putting this in the most cost effective places first, that way they can afford to roll it out to everyone faster?

Thats just basic common sense. Or do we not use any kind of optimisation logic for these things.

[Funkstar]

Or do we not use any kind of optimisation logic for these things.

This.

[Brewster0101]

I am more interested too see if BT will change their unlimited , 'cough' 'cough' 100gb limit allowance on option 3 users.

With these new super fast speeds, more online video watching will happen, even more so in HD. 100GB does not go far if you have a family watching, listening and playing on line alot.

[decky1990]

so people who live in pointless places are complaining they live in pointless places?

Ooo, touchy...suffice to say, "Location: Northern Ireland" does that pointless bit for me.

BT has announced plans for what it claims to be the biggest fibre optic rollout in the UK so far...

Considering nothing was mentioned about N.I. I just think it's more correct to say GB.

p.s.

Northern Ireland? Where's that?

Ha! /var/e-funny/