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[Bowdon]

BT Pledge 2 Million UK Premises to Get 1Gbps Ultrafast FTTP Broadband

Telecoms giant BT has today announced a major expansion (“subject to regulatory certainty“) of their “ultrafast” Fibre-to-the-Premise (FTTP) broadband network, which will reach 2 million UK homes and businesses (up from around 200,000+ premises today) and complement their future roll-out of 500Mbps capable hybrid-fibre G.fast technology.

The advantage of FTTP/H is that it offers a high capacity pure fibre optic line, which connects directly to your home in order to deliver ultrafast speeds (currently 330Mbps [30Mbps upload], but 500Mbps [100Mbps up] and 1Gbps [150Mbps up] tiers are being trialled). The disadvantage, versus more conventional hybrid-fibre approaches, is that FTTP is significantly more expensive and takes a lot longer to roll-out.

[niemand]

So this news has enthused.

I felt some enthusiasm then realised it's basically nothing that hasn't been discussed earlier. It's great PR but highly anti-competitive and spending the bare minimum to achieve the political and commercial aims. Nothing revolutionary in any way. Virgin Media will blow G.fast away the moment BT release it, hardly any residential premises will be receiving FTTP.

Business as usual 

[renluop]

And then you have THIS.