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Old 11-01-2008, 10:10   #17
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Re: BT to offer 100Mbit broadband
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Originally Posted by Neptune View Post
BT have no plans to offer residential fibre services (that I'm aware of) as they're too expensive. BT doesn't want to pay the full cost of "laying" fibre, and other ISP's aren't interested in paying to upgrade a network they do not own.

This is for business' only.

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They have, at least for now. This is FTTP - fibre to the premises.
Erm, wrong..

From http://www.openreach.co.uk/orpg/prod...s/fttp/fttp.do

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As an industry, we are seeing requests from land developers of large residential 'Greenfield' sites for fibred homes, leading to the need for the development of services over networks based on Fibre to the Premises (FTTP) delivery.
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