I'm not sure of the name of the product. The dual cable name was what he said when describing it.
I'm not BT bashing, I was asking a question. In fact since the Openreach section was partially seperated from BT the people in there now seem to be pro-Fibre, and we've seen an increase in OR willing to install fibre to the home/property.
I've heard the same message from a couple of OR engineers, that they don't understand why when doing maintenance on the network that fibre isnt installed too. This engineer was saying how things are done differently in Hull. At the moment he says when faults are appearing on the copper lines OR are just replacing it with more copper.
I think its difficult to say how much people would pay for a full speed working connection because there is so much overlap and price difference for similar products from different ISP's. Even some adsl products still provide a better speed than some fibre hybrid products.
The line rental that people pay should be ring-fenced purely for network upgrades, maintenance and staff, and all ISP's should be forced to either hand over a percentage of the money in a deal with OR or find some other way of re-investing it back in to the system.
And if there is any bashing I tend to bash VM
mainly because they could do so much better... and I say that not to put them down. But to encourage them to do more. If VM was a consistant, reliable service more people would sign up. At the moment I could order up to 300Mb down from them. I'm right in VM's area for the cable. But because of the inconsistant reports I am reading its not worth jumping. It would also help VM if they give a projected actual speed a customer could get before people order it. Now imagine if those actual speeds we were getting from VM was at least a 100Mb+ constant connection with good ping, I think a lot of people would be considering them. Also I suspect BT/OR would be installing dual cables all over the place