Sky trialing 1Gb FTTP in Amazingstoke

[Ignitionnet]

Story here.

Campaigners are calling for more fibre to the home and it looks like Sky are spending money to find out how popular a fibre to the home service will be. The TV, phone and broadband operator is running a trial in limited areas of Hampshire that will see fibre to the home installed, with speeds up to 1 Gbps.

Link directly to the trial site here.

[Qtx]

Wonder if the such high speed is to grab headlines or if they are seriously looking at that speed for the future so they can look at pure IPTV type homes and pushing other services over it.

Apart from the heavy downloaders and the handful of families that use a lot of bandwidth at the same time of day, most of that speed will never be used. Still makes you drool for some reason though

Looks like you don't even have to sign up for the trial, if they do it down your road they will contact you. Great way to do it instead of getting everyones hopes up with huge advertising and fanfare, only to let them down later.

[Ignitionnet]

This isn't the only one they're doing so they're certainly taking a serious look.

[BenMcr]

Are the same thing? I thought the cityfibre one was partly a shared dish service, whereas the Basingstoke one seems to be a full fibre trial? Or am I thinking of another Sky trial?

How much bandwidth would be required to deliver Sky's TV service of FTTP rather than via satellite?

[Qtx]

Originally Posted by BenMcr

How much bandwidth would be required to deliver Sky's TV service of FTTP rather than via satellite?

Such a small percentage it wouldn't play a part in the big scheme of things. Even if you was watching hd tv in three rooms and also recording channels, I doubt you would even use 15 or 20Mb. Once 4K tv is out then maybe 15% of the bandwidth could be used in the same situation, still leaving you 800Mb or so spare.

I can't actually remember the bitrates so those figures may be wrong. More of an indication. A lot depend son how they actually implement iptv too and decisions they make on the way.

[Ignitionnet]

Originally Posted by BenMcr

Are the same thing? I thought the cityfibre one was partly a shared dish service, whereas the Basingstoke one seems to be a full fibre trial? Or am I thinking of another Sky trial?

How much bandwidth would be required to deliver Sky's TV service of FTTP rather than via satellite?

The York trial is also full fibre, you aren't going to get shared dishes to 5000 premises

Whether it'll be broadband/telephony only I'm not sure, I suspect it will at least initially.

In the case of this trial using their own dedicated fibre network they could put the TV on a different wavelength from the broadband or use multicast, either way the bandwidth usage would be inconsequential.

The Basingstoke trial will pee off a lot of people in the surrounding towns/villages - my bro-in-law lives in a village not far from Basingstoke, and he gets around 500Kb/s on his BT BB.....

[Ignitionnet]

Originally Posted by Hugh

The Basingstoke trial will pee off a lot of people in the surrounding towns/villages - my bro-in-law lives in a village not far from Basingstoke, and he gets around 500Kb/s on his BT BB.....

http://www3.hants.gov.uk/broadband.htm

[Qtx]

Originally Posted by Hugh

The Basingstoke trial will pee off a lot of people in the surrounding towns/villages

They should be more pee'ed off that VM won't give them any connection at all, let alone 500kb/s! Damn those pesky mobile operators who wont give them good coverage either, simple because they live almost in the middle of nowhere.

Originally Posted by Ignitionnet

http://www3.hants.gov.uk/broadband.htm

Thanks for that - v. Informative.

They are in the Yellow - to be investigated to see if 95% can get done by 2017.

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Originally Posted by Qtx

They should be more pee'ed off that VM won't give them any connection at all, let alone 500kb/s! Damn those pesky mobile operators who wont give them good coverage either, simple because they live almost in the middle of nowhere.

I am sure if VM were their supplier, and they were doing a 1Gb trial locally, they would be pee'ed off with them - but they aren't, so they aren't...

[muppetman11]

I recently had my Infinity line replaced as my router was constantly losing sync and whilst speaking to the Openreach engineer he said he'd heard that Sky wanted to have its own fibre cabs on the streets rather than using Openreach all rumours but is this possible ?

[Qtx]

Originally Posted by Hugh

I am sure if VM were their supplier, and they were doing a 1Gb trial locally, they would be pee'ed off with them - but they aren't, so they aren't...

Just seems silly to be upset with one company who isn't providing them something when none of the other companies are offering anything either. Villages get a worse service than towns in many different fields, not just broadband and mobile.



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Originally Posted by muppetman11

I recently had my Infinity line replaced as my router was constantly losing sync and whilst speaking to the Openreach engineer he said he'd heard that Sky wanted to have its own fibre cabs on the streets rather than using Openreach all rumours but is this possible ?

As it stands I don't see sky being given the same freedom as BT when it comes to putting cabinets everywhere. If politicians start trying to boast uk broadband to the rest of the world then they may push through new rules though. Or some ant-competition lobbying or legal action.

Then again, I may be completely wrong

[muppetman11]

Originally Posted by BenMcr

Are the same thing? I thought the cityfibre one was partly a shared dish service, whereas the Basingstoke one seems to be a full fibre trial? Or am I thinking of another Sky trial?

How much bandwidth would be required to deliver Sky's TV service of FTTP rather than via satellite?

Is it not this your referring to Ben ?

[BenMcr]

Yes, that was it thanks. Did go looking for it but couldn't remember the other company's name.

[qasdfdsaq]

Anyone noticed they called the new pole a "telephone pole" when it most likely will be the only pole in the area with no telephone lines running through it at all?

I do wonder though, are they installing kit via BT's existing poles or are they actually putting up new poles just for themselves on everyone's street?