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Originally Posted by Chrysalis
On 3 different forums now tho this has been misunderstood as a FTTH rollout, in reality its a FTTC rollout with FTTH on new builds. It will massively improve BTs local loop but BT say the top end speed on the FTTC will be 40mbit.
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But it's not even a FTTC rollout I believe. BT don't have street cabinets, certainly not in every street like VM.
VM's fibre doesn't go into every street cabinet but rather one "master" cabinet serving dozens of street cabinets via copper/coaxial cables on each housing estate.
My (limited) understanding of this rollout is that BT hope to extend the reach of their exchanges using a technology called GPON using the same method that VM does with it's fibre.
So there won't be fibre going into every BT street cabinet in every road for the simple reason that BT don't have street cabinets, only VM has them. Instead BT will just have a few master cabinets to extend out the reach of their exchanges.
So take me as example, I'm about 2.5 miles from a BT exchange and can get a maximum 4mb from BT or a BT reseller with ADSL2. With this new technology, I might be 1 mile from a BT master cabinet and may get speeds up to 20mb on a very good day. But I'm still too far away to get super fast speeds from BT.
(NB: the longer the broadband signal travels, the more power it requires to maintain the speeds and quality of the signals)
I'm 10 metres away from a VM street cabinet....and when I could afford it, got a 20mb connection all the time. VM will most likely install ethernet cables from their street cabinets to homes to achieve 50-100mb+ speeds. This will be impossible with BT, their master cabinets are too far away regardless of the fact that fibre cable will go into them.
So we'll see what the Government/Ofcom come up with to incentivise BT and others to offer fibre into the homes or into street cabinets. That and only that, will offer speeds to compete and perhaps better VM's future offerings.
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Originally Posted by Chrysalis
VMs problem will be tho that BT have lots of isps reselling their services, BT dont generally charge more for higher burst speed so dont be surprised to see dirt cheap 40mbit packages on vdsl and that BT wholesale have much more backhaul capacity then VM
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BT have told OFCOM that wholesale rates to resellers will need to rise otherwise their returns will be waffer thin, especially if they (as they seem to be starting) fork out billions laying fibre. This puts VM in a excellent position as they can compete on speed and price.