RE: Zen Internet.
On Thursday (11th June), I had to speak to our Zen account manager regarding an unrelated matter; by which I mean my employer's account manager of course.
While I had him on the line, I asked him about Openreach NGA briefing (NGA017/20), as we now have quite a few pandemic induced teleworkers, using “Zen Small Business Fibre”, i.e. GEA-FTTC, connected to lousy ECI street cabinets, which includes my own connection.
He said that, whilst they hadn’t yet reached a final decision on the matter, they were unlikely to opt in to enabling G.INP on existing ECI circuits.
I then asked if he was able to offer an explanation; whilst I was expecting a reply along the lines of “the risk of non SIN498 compatible CPE etc., etc.”, what he actually said was, “Because of the effect it might have on off-net connections”.
I asked him what exactly he meant by “off-net connections”, to which he replied, “commercially sensitive so can’t elaborate”.
Any ideas?
Bill