Doesn't matter to BT Retail obviously as its effectively free to them anyway.
There is profit available for them and they do still have to balance the books independently of Openreach.
There is a possibly of more scope for profit for the ISPs retailing FTTP than some FTTC lines. Depends on how much bandwidth the EU uses. How much more would the 330/20 EU use compared to 80/20? A fair proportion of the existing FTTP lines are in the likes of MK, where FTTP was a solution for lines that may otherwise have been getting say 4Mbps and not necessarily heavies.
330/20
wholesales at £295.32 pa or £24.61/£29.53 inc VAT pm.
When they retail Infinity 4 at £53.45 that gives them £23.92 to play with.
Bear in mind just like the other ISPs, they also make a tidy chunk on WLR (which is why DSL is often sold at less than wholesale cost), so they will pick up some additional income there.
When 80/20 wholesales at £119.40 pa (£11.94 inc VAT) and is frequently sold at a loss because of ridiculously high line rental, you can see FTTP could be more profitable as long as the EU isn't a leach on the bandwidth.
I could well be wrong but its rather strange that not even the niche ISPs want to know about it don't you think?
Bandwidth. As mentioned in my previous post, PN limited the connection for their trials to the same as FTTC speeds and I read somewhere that even AAISP couldn't give flat out speeds.
Unlike PN & AAISP who use shared WBMC, BTretail used dedicated WBMC and as such have more bandwidth & flexibility There's a suspicion that some of the shared MSILs creak and groan at certain times of the day. ENTA buy their own MSIL bandwidth using WBC but they'd have to make sure it wouldn't impact other users. Contention and customer ratio is weird, its why datastream and Bulldog never worked :/
Host links used by the
shared WBMC ISPs like Plusnet & AAISP aren't really cut out yet for shed load of FTTP lines.
It's about time Plusnet got off shared WBMC and purchased their own MSILs. Unfortunately a lot of the niche SP's such as Zen & AAISP use shared WBMC.