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Originally Posted by themelon
Not really.
Can you imagine how much road digging they would have to do? To lay Fibre to the Home and at what cost, they have to apply for local authority permission for widespread digging now. Its going to require a lot more than just installing a new line from a junction box on the pole, it will need to go all the way to the exchange.
Ntl (or predecessors) have racked up huge debts laying cable to less than half the UK; imagine the costs of relaying cable to every home in the UK? it aint gonna be cheap and BT aint gonna do it anytime soon.
They will let us use a substandard service at high prices for amy years to come, until it is an absolute necessity to replace it.
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Why would BT need to dig up roads? The last time I looked, BT had thousands of telegraph poles everywhere, including in every street in the country. Sling the fibre cables over them, much easier. Not that bt, ntl or anyone else will bother with fibre now....
Just install wimax transceivers at the bt exchanges and connected to their network, will do the job just fine. Customers who are currently too far away from the exchange will then get about 10mb. Which is plenty enough for a few vod streams with mpeg4 compression. I gather ntl have similar plans at least for offnet anyway.