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Originally Posted by Chrysalis
that is accurate (the speed) as downloads are matching that, abysmal.
and my area is in progression for speed doubling  |
Check again. April - July.
No-where is in progress yet, first areas will go to that in March as card by card the uplift is done.
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Originally Posted by qasdfdsaq
I do wonder what they're doing with the contention ratios during this whole kerfuffle...
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Not really relevant, more down to average usage. If average usage is 200kbps at peak times contention ratio looks hideous selling lots of 50Mb services but is fine in practice.
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Originally Posted by Chrysalis
Well publically they have stated they spending 110 million or so GBP on these upgrades. To me that doesnt sound like a lot of cash, as a comparison BT are spending many billions to put into perspective.
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At a guess something to do with BT having to build an entire network overlay from final cabinet to exchange complete with tens of thousands of active MSAN cabinets, tons of new fibre runs and in some areas a complete network overbuild from access network to core. Along with that new OSS systems, additional equiment within exchanges, etc, etc, etc.
A slightly bigger task than upgrading an existing HFC network, hence why even with the huge amounts of people BT have working on this project it's taking 5 years while VM can complete their upgrades in 18 months.