Fibre woes

[Douzeper]

Ok after patiently waiting on Fibre as I am rural and my speeds are rubbish, I have now been told that I will not be getting it.  My cabinet has been upgraded and it states "awaiting customer orders" but I am still to far away.

 I thought one of the reasons for BT going fibre was to solve the problems of those further from the exchange.  But it seems Bt are still using copper from the cabinet to the premises.  Is this the case?  could someone explain further?

 Will BT upgrade the lines form the prehistoric copper wires to fibre from cabinet to premises in the future?

Email received from BT.....

"NI Broadband team.

I have checked the routing from ****** exchange to your premises and it is routed via cabinet 1, at the (address removed). I can tell you that this cabinet has been upgraded to provide fibre broadband products and whilst this will be beneficial to many customers in the area, unfortunately your premises at around 2.3km away, are currently too distant to benefit from this technology.

I appreciate this is not the response you had hoped for but I can assure you we are continually testing and adopting new technologies with a view to increasing the range and speeds of our current broadband products.

Regards"

[markp · Accepted solution]

Hi Douzeper,

Bt are upgrading their network, the first step is to upgrage from copper to the cabinet to fibre to the cabinet (FTTC), once this is complete the next step will be fibre to the premisis (FTTP).  At this moment we have no roll out plan for FTTP.

Regards

Markp

[Douzeper]

Thanks for the answer.

So anyone taking fibre is still on two pair copper wire, "infinity" seems a bit of a misleading concept.

Might be time for me to ditch BT and look for satellite broadband until such times they offer a true fibre connection.

[MHC]

I can offer you a nice satellite solution - approx 50Mbps in both directions.

Cost £100k for te equipment and around £2000k per month for the air time.  Interested?

Yes, it is expensive and that is te point.   BT has a duty to shareholders to get a return on their investment - could BT justify the £20k or more it would cost to install fibre to your house at present?    With the rental you would expect to pay - very unlikely

[Douzeper]

With the £90 a second they make (around 15 years ago, more now I am sure) - yes I think they could!

 I don't expect 50Mbps.  10 would be nice.  Currently on 1.2mbps, I can get satellite for £40 a month with a £90 installation and speeds of 10mbps. Not my preferred choice by any means, lag is an issue with Satellite, but in the meantime while BT upgrade to Fibre it is an option.

This is the problem with companies sold out to shareholders, the shareholders make the money while the customer suffers.

Do you work for BT or just like defending them?

 20k to my house - split between all the houses in the area, your reasoning doesn't work.