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Originally Posted by Sephiroth
The point I was making is that when FTTC comes to the BT cabinet speeds higher than the current "up to" 24 Mbps will be available to copper fed users beyond the cabinet. By bonding two telephone lines into an ADSL2+ router 40 Mbps download and 5 Mbps upload is available. There will be little contention en route to the cabinet because each copper line is distinct. This is particularly where VM & BT part company, so to speak.
That must frighten VM.
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Hmmm not yet I imagine. 40GBP or so per Mbps/month is the cost of the WBC variant of the backhaul between BT Wholesale and ISPs. Might be no contention between line and cabinet and cabinet to exchange but it'll kick in like a mule in between BT Wholesale and the ISPs at those prices. 40GBP / Mbps / month you're talking a contention ratio of 40:1 costing nearly 40GBP/month just on BT Wholesale interconnect.
It should be noted this is just the cost of the bandwidth, it ignores to the costs to operators of getting the stuff from the various national interconnects to their network, the costs from their network to the Internet, and the fixed costs of the interconnect.
There is of course the option to connect to the exchanges directly in a similar manner to existing LLU and use the same backhauls however as yet no LLU operator has made any commitment or shown any significant interest in the service in no small part because it makes part of their investments obsolete.