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    News - BT rolls out fibre to a further 1.2 million premises

    There are 99 new exchanges scheduled to be upgraded before spring next year.
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    Re: News - BT rolls out fibre to a further 1.2 million premises

    is anything being done about it being a shared FTTC line?

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    Re: News - BT rolls out fibre to a further 1.2 million premises

    Waiting for the price to drop. On unlimited package for £14 per month, not spending £11 extra considering I am lucky enough to get 20MB/sec already.

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    Re: News - BT rolls out fibre to a further 1.2 million premises

    To infinity and beyond!

    VDSL truly is the bees knees, for the moment.

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    Re: News - BT rolls out fibre to a further 1.2 million premises

    Quote Originally Posted by Brewster0101 View Post
    Waiting for the price to drop. On unlimited package for £14 per month, not spending £11 extra considering I am lucky enough to get 20MB/sec already.
    The increase is worth the little extra. I'm consistently getting at least 50Mbit/s down and 17Mbit/s up, meaning I can download at over 6MB/s and upload around 2MB/s.

    The line stability is pretty impressive too. I've had no noticeable issues since getting BT Infinity 2 either, compared to a few more issues with previous ADSL broadband providers.

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    Re: News - BT rolls out fibre to a further 1.2 million premises

    Still Sheffield central exchange has no plans for connection....I will never forgive them, Sheffield is 5th largest city ffs.

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    Re: News - BT rolls out fibre to a further 1.2 million premises

    "Not currently in roll-out plans." 34 miles from London !
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    Society's to blame,
    Or possibly Atari.

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    Re: News - BT rolls out fibre to a further 1.2 million premises

    Also today BT checker has added few months on some people's activation dates 31/03/2013 to 4 to 12 months further way...mines still show the old date for now ...fingers crossed

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    Re: News - BT rolls out fibre to a further 1.2 million premises

    My exchange just says 2013, I have a feeling it wont make it out to us either, I get about 2 to 4 Mbps so I'm a long way from the exchange.

    Quote Originally Posted by pinkpound View Post
    Also today BT checker has added few months on some people's activation dates 31/03/2013 to 4 to 12 months further way...mines still show the old date for now ...fingers crossed
    Could you post the link please?
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    Re: News - BT rolls out fibre to a further 1.2 million premises

    Yeah they did my street last week and I have fibre being installed this thursday. Begone my crappy 4 meg line

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    Re: News - BT rolls out fibre to a further 1.2 million premises

    Quote Originally Posted by cptwhite_uk View Post
    Still Sheffield central exchange has no plans for connection....I will never forgive them, Sheffield is 5th largest city ffs.
    I was hopping to see some part of Sheffield to get this. SamKnows tells me my exchange will get fibre on 31/3/2013. But BT haven't got it on that list.

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    Re: News - BT rolls out fibre to a further 1.2 million premises

    Loving my 1MB connection. Lol 5 Miles away from Cambridge.

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    Re: News - BT rolls out fibre to a further 1.2 million premises

    They should make FTTH mandatory for all new build houses. My exchange was FTTC enabled 2 years ago, but my housing estate has not been upgraded for some reason.

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    Re: News - BT rolls out fibre to a further 1.2 million premises

    I wonder when they will do something about people connected directly to exchanges. You would think it would be fairly cost effective compared to digging up the street and installing a new larger cabinet and a power supply.

    (My exchange is at the end of my road)

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