Sky trialing 1Gb FTTP in Amazingstoke

[Pierre]

Originally Posted by Ignitionnet

This was relaxed in 2013 for 5 years.

See here.

good info, thanks

[Horizon]

I posed the the unanswered question about Sky last year, so I'll pose it again:

What are Sky up with these FTTH trials? Do we really think they are going to build a nationwide network perhaps in conjunction with talktalk and City Fibre? It will cost a fortune...

The recent Sky complaint to Ofcom about Openreach would seem to suggest they are up to major mischief.

If Sky or anyone else were able to offer me a cable tv service, I would be very interested, especially if pumped down a FTTH line.

[muppetman11]

Talk Talk said the following in May of this year ,

TalkTalk has confirmed it will begin connecting homes and businesses this autumn to its trial ultra-fast broadband network in*York, saying the group is in talks for a national roll-out to 10m households.

http://www.theguardian.com/business/...rnet-broadband

No idea whether this is at all likely or whether an expanded roll out would include Sky.

[Ignitionnet]

Originally Posted by Horizon

I posed the the unanswered question about Sky last year, so I'll pose it again:

What are Sky up with these FTTH trials? Do we really think they are going to build a nationwide network perhaps in conjunction with talktalk and City Fibre? It will cost a fortune...

They're trying to work out whether or not they can make the economics work if they build their own access network.

They pay SES Astra a lot of money for satellite capacity and are very aware of the limitations of that method of delivery.

Their trials are in different areas with different population densities and build methods. They need to work out costs and uptake.

[qasdfdsaq]

Originally Posted by Ignitionnet

They're trying to work out whether or not they can make the economics work if they build their own access network.

Their trials are in different areas with different population densities and build methods. They need to work out costs and uptake.

Hopefully they don't get it completely wrong and have to backtrack after release like BT did with FTTPoD (and, well, FTTP-non-oD)

[Horizon]

Originally Posted by muppetman11

Talk Talk said the following in May of this year ,

http://www.theguardian.com/business/...rnet-broadband

No idea whether this is at all likely or whether an expanded roll out would include Sky.

Interesting, unaware of that. So, talktalk at least, are thinking about a national network.

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Originally Posted by Ignitionnet

They're trying to work out whether or not they can make the economics work if they build their own access network.

They pay SES Astra a lot of money for satellite capacity and are very aware of the limitations of that method of delivery.

Their trials are in different areas with different population densities and build methods. They need to work out costs and uptake.

I wonder if we'll see something like that is the States aka AT&T/Direct TV merger.

If Sky wants a nationwide network and BT has infrastructure, perhaps these two might bite the bullet and merge??

[Ignitionnet]

Originally Posted by Horizon

If Sky wants a nationwide network and BT has infrastructure, perhaps these two might bite the bullet and merge??

Absolutely no chance in hell.

[qasdfdsaq]

Originally Posted by Ignitionnet

Absolutely no chance in hell.

Said no woman, ever.

[Ignitionnet]

I think you weren't paying close enough attention to them when they addressed you.