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Originally Posted by nodrogd
Think we have the definative answer now with the forthcoming speed upgrades:
(From VM's community forum announcement on the upgrade)
"Why do I have to wait for my Speed Boost?
Over the next 18 months we're going to be upgrading over four million customers. Doubling everyone’s speed is a pretty big job so it can’t happen overnight. Our engineers will be working as fast as they can to upgrade 38,000 street cabinets and 186,000km of cable (enough to go around the equator four times).... "
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cable not fibre.
Nothing sinister about that and it goes hand in hand with the refurbishment of street cabinets, remembering that 5 out of 6 (circa) are cable not fibre.
There will obviously be replacement of tired lasers (curing SNR issues) and additional fibre added where necessary for more channel capacity.
It's a matter of survival IMO for VM ( a bit dramatically put) because BT Infinity will be present at more than 75% of the UK.