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Originally Posted by slowcoach
BT have stated that they are only going to install fibre in new properties, current properties will continue at whatever speed they have now, unless the technology improves.
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You must be joking, BT have no intention to begin a nationwide rollout of fibre at all. Even in the few areas they do roll it out it will only be to make sure that all customers can get ADSL so that they can proceed with their own network economisation plans, they couldn't give a monkeys about providing people faster ADSL At the moment.
Let me put it this way...
The current 2Mbit products actually use a business service, there is no 2Mbit home product from BT Wholesale at the moment.
BT Wholesale released 1Mbit Home service about a year ago, only 18 months or so after cable companies.
BT have been offering the same maximum speed to most business customers since the release of the service, 2Mbit downstream, 256kbit upstream.
BT are the company that took the fibre that was already in their network and wrapped copper around it to deliver ADSL. Go figure...
BT are doing a trial of fibre to the home that is in progress, however before anyone gets too optimistic though BT were doing a trial of 26Mbit DSL technology... 7 years ago. Trials certainly do not equal a commercial deployment any time soon in the case of BT.