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Announcements => News Articles => Topic started by: UncleUB on October 18, 2010, 04:36:23 PM

Title: BT Openreach UK Reveal 110Mbps FTTP
Post by: UncleUB on October 18, 2010, 04:36:23 PM
Here we go again,  >:(


With millions still struggling to get above 2mb,we are now mentioning 110mb.No doubt about 0,01% of the population will be able to get this.


http://www.ispreview.co.uk/story/2010/10/18/bt-openreach-uk-reveal-110mbps-fttp-fibre-optic-broadband-product-and-price.html
Title: Re: BT Openreach UK Reveal 110Mbps FTTP
Post by: BritBrat on October 18, 2010, 04:56:52 PM
Does it come with a 5Mb cap?
Title: Re: BT Openreach UK Reveal 110Mbps FTTP
Post by: silversurfer44 on October 18, 2010, 05:30:55 PM
I'd say it was just propaganda. Trying to upstage Virgin.
Title: Re: BT Openreach UK Reveal 110Mbps FTTP
Post by: UncleUB on October 18, 2010, 06:48:39 PM
I'd say it was just propaganda. Trying to upstage Virgin.

Virgin are another company that are aiming high at a tiny minority of the population,while millions still don't have cable access.

Example...where I use to live we were the first area in Sheffield to get cable (at that time it was a company called Yorkshire Cable).This was around 1994.
I now live less than 3 miles from my old address and 15 years on have no cable access.This seems common across the city,some areas that have,but many areas that don't
Title: Re: BT Openreach UK Reveal 110Mbps FTTP
Post by: pintosal on October 20, 2010, 06:30:51 PM
No doubt about 0,01% of the population will be able to get this.


Anyone can easily get this if their name is Michael Rake and they are the Chairman of BT. See http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/30/rake_broadband/
Title: Re: BT Openreach UK Reveal 110Mbps FTTP
Post by: UncleUB on October 20, 2010, 06:40:31 PM
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BT said there was nothing unusual about one of its staff trialling a new product.

And that one just happens to be the chairman....... >:(
Title: Re: BT Openreach UK Reveal 110Mbps FTTP
Post by: waltergmw on October 20, 2010, 06:49:04 PM
Gentlefolk,

Just in case we get carried away with envy, that trial was only their horrible BET which still uses two twisted pairs and is not in any sense future-proofed !
It might have been a ploy to obtain Government Grants but I believe that has been rumbled.
In any case duplicating every broadband line is highly unlikely to even be a practical proposition.

I believe some Hambledenians have a better wireless solution now.

Kind regards,
Walter