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Originally Posted by Chris
And if you're on a *very* small exchange, when you try to sign up you get a message saying you're not eligible.
Unfortunately BT is obeying its universal service obligations to the letter, and no further, and there remains no sign in Government of any adjustment to the ridiculously low obligation to deliver 28kbps.
They will put Infinity only where they think they can make money out of it quickly. Unfortunately this means in many areas they are simply doubling up the fibre network already in place and in the ownership of VM. So many towns and cities will have a choice of which fibre network to use while many other locations will still have none.
Joined up it aint.
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Perfectly joined up. Even if sharing 50-50 with VM they'll still make more money for less outlay out of the 2/3rds of the country they are covering on the commercial rollout than many more remote areas.
BT are, after all, a business. I believe you're on the end of miles of pole mounted cable, less than 10 premises. Bit of a struggle for BT to justify building a new cabinet and a huge fibre run to that cabinet along with all the fibre to the exchange and the other very spread our premises served by that exchange needing new fibre and cabinets.
The current cabinets are to handle 230+ connections, not about 6. It's not just about sticking something shiny in the exchange and being done with it unfortunately.