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Announcements => News Articles => Topic started by: tbailey2 on November 14, 2016, 09:33:02 PM

Title: BT's Openreach launches gigabit FTTP product
Post by: tbailey2 on November 14, 2016, 09:33:02 PM: Quote
Openreach, the wholesale arm of telecommunications giant BT, has announced that it is upgrading its top fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) product from 330Mb/s to 1Gb/s, though its availability is still sorely limited.
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Selley's statement includes a tacit admission that the new speeds - indeed, the entire FTTP network - is still not available to all. While the company has announced plans to expand the network, pledging to hit two million premises by 2020, at present it reaches a mere 327,000 homes and businesses across the UK. For those lucky enough to be included, pricing has been set at a £500 connection fee and £55 per month for the 500Mb/s tier or £80 per month for the 1Gb/s tier.

From bit-tech
(http://www.bit-tech.net/news/hardware/2016/11/09/openreach-gigabit-fibre/1)
Title: Re: BT's Openreach launches gigabit FTTP product
Post by: kitz on November 14, 2016, 09:44:37 PM: £55 per month will be doable for those who want 500Mbps, compared to £58 (inc line rental) which is what Virgin charges.
Installation cost is steep though, so that alone could price it out of the home market. Just need more FTTP first.
Title: Re: BT's Openreach launches gigabit FTTP product
Post by: ejs on November 15, 2016, 03:36:51 PM: It's starting with a half-price special offer for the installation charge, for the first year.
https://www.openreach.co.uk/orpg/home/updates/briefings/ultrafastfibreaccessbriefings/ultrafastfibreaccessbriefingarticles/nga200316.do
Title: Re: BT's Openreach launches gigabit FTTP product
Post by: Chrysalis on November 15, 2016, 04:49:03 PM: people on high salaries with a desire for such speeds I expect would pay these fee's. Not a mass market product tho.
Title: Re: BT's Openreach launches gigabit FTTP product
Post by: niemand on November 15, 2016, 09:37:58 PM: Would buy, but as I'm not in a trial area or a taxpayer funded BDUK area no can do :)
Title: Re: BT's Openreach launches gigabit FTTP product
Post by: Weaver on December 09, 2016, 05:28:05 AM: Would buy, at half the cost of what I'm paying now, per month ;D for 140 times the downstream speed. But then I'd have to get a much, much faster router. And some actual fibre.

Last month’s bill was ~£160, plus some 3G and a few other small items on top which brought it to over £200 contribution to the RevK’s cider fund. (Beer too? Certainly likes his uisge beatha a lot.)
Title: Re: BT's Openreach launches gigabit FTTP product
Post by: Mark07 on December 15, 2016, 01:12:36 PM: Interesting news.

Can anyone clarify if the £500 connection fee is the only outlay? Or is there potentially still massive "install" charges to get the fibre to you?
Title: Re: BT's Openreach launches gigabit FTTP product
Post by: gt94sss2 on December 15, 2016, 03:35:41 PM: This is only available if you are in a native FTTP area - its not linked to their 'FTTP on Demand' offerings.