Thread: ADSL Virgin National closes to new customers
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Old 02-10-2013, 13:46   #8
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Re: Bye Bye Virgin National
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Originally Posted by Sephiroth View Post
I believe that VM did want to go FTTC but hadn't the critical mass to make the sums work - especially given the headstart that their competition has.
Headstart is irrelevant - everybody is simply selling the Openreach product. I imagine the wholesale price for that is volume dependent and Virgin National are just too small a player.

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Originally Posted by Sephiroth View Post
pole strung fibre would be relatively cheap once the proprietary stuff has been sorted out.
The only bidder in the government subsidised high speed rural broadband rollout is BT. I can't see VM ever wanting to dig up the roads again to lay coax, twisted pair, fibre, or anything else - too many earlier players went bust doing that. Stringing fibre along the poles only gets you to a cabinet somewhere and the last leg is the expensive bit to install.
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