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Originally Posted by Chrysalis
Its more to do with not been forced to wholesale their product at cost. BT will do city areas primarily thats a forgone conclusion. BTw is losing customers to LLU, rolling out fibre to LLU ares (which are typically also cable areas) is the best way to get those customers back. You right it may well cost more, but that isn't necessairly a bad thing because currently retail prices on many adsl isps at the moment is too low and stopping investment.
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Originally Posted by Chrysalis
It is true sky have been trialling fibre to the cabinet, probably for VOD style services I expect. Sky anytime on the sky+ boxes has always only been an intermediate service. ADSL wont cut it on its without FTTC/H because only approx 25% of lines would have enough bandwidth to reliably supply the service.
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Hello mate
Yeah i agree of course, i was just putting another spin on it and we will have to wait and see what BT do.
I for one don't think we will see a mass roll out because it's too costly and i think for the time being they will fibre up non vm areas where there is no competiton in order to make their investment provide a return and become viable.
BT are still stuck going to be stuck with the majority of their infrastructure still being copper though as this fibre investment is apparently as said by someone else "The last mile." This means they will still be stuck behind VM in the future who have a more future proof infrastructure and will be able to offer greater speeds than BT. The companies that will really be screwed by this news are the likes of Sky who are investing heavily on the like of LLU which is quicky looking like becoming the old way or receiving internet. Customers are going to see the likes of BT and VM jumping on the fibre optic bb bandwagon with Sky stuck in the slow lane.
Sky need to be seen to be offering VOD for their customers soon but they really are going to struggle doing it this way because it means the majority of their customers wont have a reliable service because of poor speeds, even those with unbundled local exchanges will have problems with a vod service if they don't libe close to the exchange. It's such a shame as everyone should be able to enjoy true VOD.