News - BT trials ultrafast broadband using copper cables

[iworrall]

BT should ensure the majority of the country has at least double digit mbit speed before rolling out anything else.

Also to Blackale, I'm in a small group of homeowners who can only upgrade to FTTP due to being connected directly to an exchange. I'm surrounded by FTTC cabinets and cant have it.

tried discussing this with Openreach who just put the phone down on me - what an awesome company.

I was in the same boat until last week. Now, the line checker says I'm on a cabinet.
"Superfast Cymru" have paid Openreach to install cabinets in the exchange car park, 900m from my house as the phone wire travels.
There may be a similar broadband promotion scheme where you live. Worth a google?

[KendrickDM]

They aren't wasting money, they are saving it. The majority of people aren't prepared to pay the cost of FTTP.

I Agree with Biscuit, the price of copper is 6700 per tonne and that of glass is nearly nothing which is why Gypsys and Romanians are currently ripping out out copper conduit cable around the country and selling it on rather than our fibre broadband. Any economy's believed to be made by re-using the old infrastructure is a 'belief' held by the same managers who blocked UK broadband for ISDN until competition rules forced them to open up the exchanges and all of a sudden we found out we could run Broadband.

[theleader]

I remember at college being told 1200/75 baud was the faster transmission rate over two core copper wire! luckily for me, I only live less 400m from my local BT exchange & with a box at the end of the road, even less!
I'm afraid that now BT is a standard profit driven company with all the others telecom companies, there is no financial onus on them to improve rural transmission speeds, if they don't smell a profit! Without the smell of profit, there will not be any competition! Most other telecoms companies cherry pick their areas of service. Only with government subsidies can telecom companies be induced in to improving data rates in low profit areas!
The poor mans way of trying to find new techniques to improve data transmission rate over what you already have is not a bad way to go!
Unless you are willing to pay the full cost of getting a decent speed of connection!
I believe, in some areas, people have laid there own fibre cable to improve local transmission speeds! People power!

[MustardCutter]

Gypsys and Romanians are currently ripping out out copper conduit cable around the country and selling it on

Spot the daily mail reader...

[LeetyMcLeet]

Moar bandwidth!

[RobbieRoy]

Spot the daily mail reader...

Seconded

[Darth Sidious]

they said last year that fibre would be available in my area between Jan-Sept 2014, now the btchecker says Jan - June 2015

lol

[NitrousX]

So with this technology does this mean those in rural areas with ADSL connections via the telephone line be able to utilize this as anything better than 8mbps in my area would be a God send.

[Gerrard]

So with this technology does this mean those in rural areas with ADSL connections via the telephone line be able to utilize this as anything better than 8mbps in my area would be a God send.

Depends how far you are from the cabinet. If I understand this correctly, you need FTTC first and then this is the next step. If you're pretty close to your cabinet, then this won't make a massive real-world difference once FTTC is available.