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Originally Posted by damien c
The thing is right, is Virgin's broadband fibre or not?
Answer yes it is the whole backbone is Fibre.
Could BT and Sky and other companies advertise saying "our fibre optic broadband" simply put yes they could because there backbone is fibre.
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By this reasoning, back when people were using dialup or ISDN it could have been marketed as 'fibre internet' because the entire backbone at that point was quite likely fibre.
The last mile matters. HFC has different performance characteristics to FTTH. Virgin's last mile is not fibre. They shouldn't be able to call it such.
For what it's worth, I'm also very annoyed by BT's VDSL2 (and resellers) being marketed as fibre. It's also clearly not.
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Originally Posted by damien c
Not to mention that Virgin have or are curretly trialing 1.5gb connection's using fibre to the home so, if and when that get's released are you then going to say the same thing.
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If/when Virgin start actually running fibre to people's homes then of course I'm not going to say the same thing... because it wouldn't be true? It'd be brilliant if they did this on a broader scale!
Hangon, I just googled this and it's 1.5gb down and 150meg up, which sounds suspiciously like massive amounts of channel bonding on DOCSIS3? Prossibly not fibre.