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Old 29-04-2012, 09:56   #12
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Re: BT to start selling 330Mbps infinity from June 11/2012????

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Originally Posted by qasdfdsaq View Post
Surely I need not remind you of a certain competitor who were happy selling a 100mbps product on a 200mbps backhaul at £35 a month? :=]

Barring the fact that FTTP exchanges are hardly your average, a few 330mbps customers on a 64-way split GPON can't possibly turn out worse than a dozen 100mbps customers on a 4-channel DOCSIS 3 bond split 250-ways...

That considered, if I'm right and the lower upload option is differentiated as a "consumer" service like it is on 100 now, I'd expect a much lower prioritisation rate and more contention on it too. Still. Pricing should be out in a month or so.
Openreach pricing isn't cross-subsidised nor based on usage, they can't traffic shape, they can't use telephony revenue to reduce pricing on FTTP. VM's 100Mb ego product was notably underfunded, hence the big uptick in congestion issues, and heavily subsidised by lower tiers. The average usage on 100Mb was huge compared with the average across the customer base.

The crunch point on the FTTP network isn't going to be the passive optical network nor the GPON card, it's going to be the backhaul at the exchange, be it BT Wholesale or an LLU operator, then in the case of BT Wholesale at the handover to the ISP. Backhaul at the exchange is down to the wholesale/retail operator depending if they are selling Openreach directly, and the handover between the wholesale operator and the retail operator where present will be down to the retail operator.

21CN is priced on burst rates, a 330Mb FTTP customer can make a hell of a dent in a 1Gb BTW backhaul and push it over the committed rate quite rapidly.

The 330Mb service is being written about as 'Premium' FTTP. We'll see if it has the price tag to match from Openreach. It will, sadly, need a relatively premium price tag, or to be shaped to hell, at the retail level.

As a case in point Sky's 80/20 product with no limits and using LLU is 30GBP / month if taken with line rental and calls, 50% more than the 40/2 product. You're probably talking 50+GBP/month for 330Mb delivered over LLU let alone a BT Wholesale product.

On the flip side though this may actually start to restore some sanity to broadband pricing. Unmanaged, shaped, throttled services, which VM isn't, are very expensive.
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