News - BT returns to profit

[HEXUS]

An extended programme of cutting overheads and raising efficiency finally pays off, buys into cloud gaming.

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[Salazaar]

Haha! Of course BT are commited to fibre. It means they can drive up and down the country pulling the old copper wire and selling it for a ton of cash.

[oolon]

I think the cost of the upgrade work will be more, however you are right there is clearly resale value in the copper and the economics have got alot better, additionally fibre has no second hand value, so hopefully people will be less likely to strip it out. As a holder of BT... I would just like to say ... YAY!

[Gerrard]

Haha! Of course BT are commited to fibre. It means they can drive up and down the country pulling the old copper wire and selling it for a ton of cash.

They were/are trying to lay fibre from the exchange to the camp to help with bandwidth problems, but there's a listed bridge in the way and they've already filled the conduit up with copper cables. As far as I am aware, they can't remove the copper cabling (for the foreseeable future anyway) as that still carries the normal phone calls, the fibre just runs parallel with it, so I don't think they'll be able to recover the copper.

[watercooled]

With 21CN POTS runs over VoIP so I don't see any reason they'd need to keep copper to the exchange. I'm surprised they've bought into OnLive, firstly because it seems to be vapourware and secondly because it would take huge amounts of bandwidth to run which is the last thing BT need now!

[G4Z]

Got to say (disclaimer I do work for BT) I think buying into Onlive is a really really good idea. Its a really unique offering compared to the services offered by virgin and sky. I like having control of my own hardware and I will be reluctant to give it up but just think, instead of spending that £400 on a new graphics card, I can simply buy a bigger monitor or better mouse and keyboard or whatever. Thinking about it, if I could get the kind of speed that I do on my Be LLU connection from BT this might even make me consider them when my graphics card is too far past it and needs an upgrade.