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Originally Posted by General Maximus
I have an excellent memory and i distinctly remember Igni saying it a few months ago when we were talking about docsis3.1 coming out and whether the shub could handle it. The conversation went something along the lines of 3.1 doesnt run on channels as we currently understand it, wont use a shub and we be a standalone modem service.
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I have no recollection of that and apologise for my inaccuracy if I did.
There are no 3.1 home gateways yet however by the time VM come to deploy commercially there certainly will be.
Sure I didn't say that it would be a new tier of service as the original 100/10 product was?
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Originally Posted by General Maximus
the only consolation is that when docsis3.1 comes out next year we are going to be getting a docsis3.1 modem and not a docsis3.1 shub.
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I wouldn't be quite so definite that 3.1 will release so a product next year.
Aside from anything else there is quite simply no point. If BT do something exciting VM will use it to respond however there are no indications of BT doing something exciting.
3.0 is perfectly fine for beating BT in over 90% of the country for nearly the entire next decade based on current plans.
The only announcements have been group wide. In some territories Liberty compete with lots of FTTP networks offering hundreds of megabits right up to gigabit. In those areas 3.1 is a priority, not here where the telco is planning up to 300Mb to 40% of the country, with the average maximum in that 40% being 150-200Mb, and this by 2020. Their new FTTP plans will increase their coverage of that technology and hence gigabit speeds to less than 10% of the UK. VM are planning more FTTP than BT right now.