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Chrysalis · 27-11-2006, 08:15

by moving the dslam closer I assume you mean fibre to the cabinet and the answer is no I think, some people leaked this was going to happen but then yarwell and some others in the know pointed out bt 21cn docs dont mention any kind of fibre rollout on the last mile, last mile been between exchange and property.

I actually hope the savings are 'not' passed onto the consumer my reasoning is recently adsl has got too competitive on the retail level and its been dominated now by bargian price 8mbit which is severly shaped/capped and very limiting to use. I am hoping that the cost savings are used to improve the service instead.

I dont know about the copper r&d but I suspect BT wont be that bothered that adsl2+ will perform very poor for some people, their own publish stats show only 25% of lines now can manage the full 8mbit on adsl1 so this 25% is probably the only people who are going to see around 16mbit on adsl2+ and the other 75% will be less.

27-11-2006, 08:15	#137
Chrysalis cf.mega poster Join Date: Sep 2003 Posts: 12,047	Re: A little inside information by an Employee. by moving the dslam closer I assume you mean fibre to the cabinet and the answer is no I think, some people leaked this was going to happen but then yarwell and some others in the know pointed out bt 21cn docs dont mention any kind of fibre rollout on the last mile, last mile been between exchange and property. I actually hope the savings are 'not' passed onto the consumer my reasoning is recently adsl has got too competitive on the retail level and its been dominated now by bargian price 8mbit which is severly shaped/capped and very limiting to use. I am hoping that the cost savings are used to improve the service instead. I dont know about the copper r&d but I suspect BT wont be that bothered that adsl2+ will perform very poor for some people, their own publish stats show only 25% of lines now can manage the full 8mbit on adsl1 so this 25% is probably the only people who are going to see around 16mbit on adsl2+ and the other 75% will be less.