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Announcements => News Articles => Topic started by: meritez on March 19, 2023, 06:20:11 PM

Title: EE Invites BT Customers to Faster FTTP Broadband Speeds Trial
Post by: meritez on March 19, 2023, 06:20:11 PM
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Selected customers of UK ISP EE and BT’s Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based home broadband packages are being invited to take part in a new “Faster Broadband Speeds Trial“, which we suspect will involve the use of Openreach’s new 1.2Gbps and 1.8Gbps tiers (both offer 120Mbps upstream).

https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2023/03/ee-invites-bt-customers-to-faster-fttp-broadband-speeds-trial.html

Is 120Mbps upstream enough for a 1.8Gbps connection?

Title: Re: EE Invites BT Customers to Faster FTTP Broadband Speeds Trial
Post by: Alex Atkin UK on March 19, 2023, 07:26:46 PM
Quote from: meritez on March 19, 2023, 06:20:11 PM
Is 120Mbps upstream enough for a 1.8Gbps connection?

Absolutely, it only takes about 20Mbit upload to saturate 10Gigabit down.
Title: Re: EE Invites BT Customers to Faster FTTP Broadband Speeds Trial
Post by: Chrysalis on March 19, 2023, 09:24:42 PM
Yeah I do think its enough, it seems very scrooge though.
Title: Re: EE Invites BT Customers to Faster FTTP Broadband Speeds Trial
Post by: Alex Atkin UK on March 19, 2023, 11:22:13 PM
Seems they are fishing to get customers off other ISPs onto their service for this trial.

You'd have to be batshit crazy to change ISPs for a trial of undefined length, not to mention many will be under contract anyway.
Title: Re: EE Invites BT Customers to Faster FTTP Broadband Speeds Trial
Post by: j0hn on March 20, 2023, 10:24:04 AM
Quote from: Alex Atkin UK on March 19, 2023, 11:22:13 PM
Seems they are fishing to get customers off other ISPs onto their service for this trial.

Not fishing, past tense.

The trial was open to applicants many months ago via the BT Trials community. It stopped taking applicants a while  ago.

They were looking for anyone with a single Openreach FTTP connection that was out of contract (with any provider).

I'm still a BT trialist from about 6 years ago when I was actually with BT.
I've done 2 EE mobile trials in that time but wasn't picked for this particular trial unfortunately.
Title: Re: EE Invites BT Customers to Faster FTTP Broadband Speeds Trial
Post by: Alex Atkin UK on March 20, 2023, 05:54:31 PM
Crikey, that article is rather late then.