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    News - BT accelerates super-fast broadband rollout

    Somehow BT manages to accelerate infinity.
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    Re: News - BT accelerates super-fast broadband rollout

    BT FTTC has become available in my area but I have found out that some ISP's have a £30 cancellation charge even after your 12 month contract has ended. Another annoyance is that you can't transfer your service to another property, at least that's what I was told by IDNet. So I would have to cancel a 12 month contract and incur a massive cost for that as well as pay another connection charge when signing up for the service again.

    Not a very good service with those annoying terms attached to your contract.

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    Re: News - BT accelerates super-fast broadband rollout

    fingers crossed it comes to my area soon then....
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    Re: News - BT accelerates super-fast broadband rollout

    300Mbps by spring next year? That would be good stuff...Virgin will likely counter that and release even faster speeds. I heard that Virgin is trialing 1Gbps I believe. Also was told by one of Virgin staff that they planing on releasing a 200Mbps next year...they better increase that to 400Mbps! .
    Either way competition is always good...more options at cheaper prices!

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    Re: News - BT accelerates super-fast broadband rollout

    A couple of months ago I checked and my exchange was meant to be FTTC enabled. I've just had another look and it's now showing as ready on 3rd November. WTF!? No wonder I've not been able to choose the option on my upgrade choices...

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    Re: News - BT accelerates super-fast broadband rollout

    Still not available in my area either. Wasn't even on the website for when the exchange was going to be going live. So hopefully this means it arrives a little earlier.

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    Re: News - BT accelerates super-fast broadband rollout

    BT recently announced that it intends to raise download speeds up to 300Mbps by spring next year in an attempt to create a gap between itself and competitor Virgin Media, who may soon find out that not investing in significant new fibre all these years may not have been the best move after-all
    No insult to the article writer, but that last bit counts as understatement of the day in my book! I've also got to put on my cynic hat an wonder what percentage of BT customers will get that 300Mbps, as according to their bb checker I can currently only get 1% of that tops, (if I wasn't with VM that is).

    Not to pimp up VM (purveyor of that awful "SuperHub") but didn't they say that the whole point of that benighted piece of excrement (the SH) was to permit the users to access the 100, 200, 300+ Mbps that VM claim that they can deliver "by flicking a switch".

    So it'll be interesting to see what VM's counterblast will be, presumably to be issued end of this week or next week. Of course, if they give me a free upgrade from 30 to 50 (or even 100) then I just might stop slagging off the SH.

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    Re: News - BT accelerates super-fast broadband rollout

    Quote Originally Posted by crossy View Post
    No insult to the article writer, but that last bit counts as understatement of the day in my book! I've also got to put on my cynic hat an wonder what percentage of BT customers will get that 300Mbps, as according to their bb checker I can currently only get 1% of that tops, (if I wasn't with VM that is).

    Not to pimp up VM (purveyor of that awful "SuperHub") but didn't they say that the whole point of that benighted piece of excrement (the SH) was to permit the users to access the 100, 200, 300+ Mbps that VM claim that they can deliver "by flicking a switch".

    So it'll be interesting to see what VM's counterblast will be, presumably to be issued end of this week or next week. Of course, if they give me a free upgrade from 30 to 50 (or even 100) then I just might stop slagging off the SH.
    Speaking from experience, VM have great fibre coverage in some areas but not in others where it's heavily contended and starts behaving like you'd expect ADSL to. The reason they introduced download limits some years back was because they had started maxing out pockets of their infrastructure as they hadn't upgraded anything seriously in quite some time. Sure they have high-speed trials in isolated areas but there have been and are some seriously limiting factors in full roll-out. I believe I read recently that they are now laying new cable down since BT's original announcement of their fibre service.

    As for me, now, I live right next to a virgin media cable on a new estate but they couldn't even be bothered to extend it that far, even when the roads had been dug up for them and so BT fibre is my only hope. As it's fibre I don't expect it to behave like ADSL and for that reason I don't think "upto" will be an understatement on the same scale.

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    Re: News - BT accelerates super-fast broadband rollout

    VM sell more bandwidth then they have, that fair enough, but in some areas they seem to sell way way way more bandwidth than they have causing all sorts of issues.
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    Re: News - BT accelerates super-fast broadband rollout

    Personally I couldn't care about such high speeds. I get 18mb from BT @ £17.00 per month for unlimited usage. I can stream HD and do everything I want at good speeds.

    Moving house in 3 weeks to an area that offers Virgin fibre broadband but the prices are higher than £17.00 per month. At a time when people have less money, I ain't spending more money on my internet just to make something faster that quite frankly is perfectly fast enough.

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    Re: News - BT accelerates super-fast broadband rollout

    This makes me angry.

    BT are the original "Download limiters". What's the point in Infinity if they carry on ruling download limits with an iron fist?....as well as not offering it on LLU?

    BT can take all their services and stick them where the sun don't shine....at least until they refund me the call rental for the phone I never had for 18 months and start employing some BRITISH people to answer phones.
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    Re: News - BT accelerates super-fast broadband rollout

    My broadband checker results consistently give an expected 3.5mbps. I get a strong 8mbps sync and my downloads consistently hit ~ 6mpbs in quiet times. They've got *really* conservative with the estimated speeds recently.

    And, as I've said many time, Virgin don't serve my little cul-de-sac in a dense residential area within a couple of miles of Manchester city centre, so the speeds they can offer are completely irrelevant. In a lot of areas BT aren't actually competing with anyone - and in quite a lot of areas where VM is avaialble there are still individual streets that were never connected - like mine. So really the speed with which BT are pushing some of this stuff out - given that the competition is intermittent at best - isn't too shoddy...

    *EDIT* afaik fttc will be available for LLU - plusnet offered me it as an upgrade a few months ago (a little precipitatively, as it turns out) and they claim they can also provide your line rental and calls on it. If we're due by the end of this week I'll have to hold off my search for new broadband to see what they can do me...

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    Re: News - BT accelerates super-fast broadband rollout

    Any more detailed info on the timings? The exchange where I am moving to soon is scheduled for March 2012, would be nice to think it’ll get done before then so I can hold of signing a 12month contract until that time.

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    Re: News - BT accelerates super-fast broadband rollout

    Indeed it'll be available for any company on an open wholesale basis.

    Quote Originally Posted by Rob_B View Post
    Any more detailed info on the timings? The exchange where I am moving to soon is scheduled for March 2012, would be nice to think it’ll get done before then so I can hold of signing a 12month contract until that time.
    Regarding timings your best bet is samknows.com - they receive monthly reports from BT.

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    Re: News - BT accelerates super-fast broadband rollout

    The Guildford exchange was due to be upgraded on the 31st March 2011, my area has only been enabled on the 31st October 2011. Parts of Guildford had FTTC a few months ago so it takes quite a while to enable the entire exchange area.

    Don't count on your house being in one of the area's that gets FTTC close to the estimated enabled date.
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    Re: News - BT accelerates super-fast broadband rollout

    "help the government achieve its ambition of having the best super-fast broadband network in Europe by 2015"

    That's all very well but only the rich can afford it!

    I pay O2 £14.99 a month for up to 8Mb download speed (can only get 5Mb here anyway), and 'unlimited' bandwidth, the same sort of thing from BT is £28 per month, way out of my league and most of my friends and family! Infinity starts at £28 per month as well and is a day dream for the likes of us!

    It's all very well for the MP's and Directors on their Mega Salaries but Joe on the Street is struggling as it is!

    It's just going to create a Net Them and Us culture...

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