*sigh* So you guys have such high speeds to begin with, and now your speeds are doubling? For free? I live in the 3rd largest city in the US - a major metropolitan area - and I'm limited to 1.5mbps on a good day.
Splendid, I think as a way of a thank you I might have to get their Tivo box..... but do I go for the 500GB or 1TB version..... hmmmmm
Probably be lucky to get it that fast though The upgrade, which begins in February, will also see the service's top speed increase from 100Mbps to 120Mbps. The full rollout is expected to be complete by mid-2013 at a cost to the company of £110m
I love how the government are congratulating them for increasing speeds, whilst all they are doing is broadening the 'digital divide' that they go on about so frequently. Its also funny that they cannot be made to help fix the digi divide as Virgin do not have SMP unlike BT etc whom get forced to invest in certain 'commercially non-viable' areas. Ho hum, shock horror. Least I will be getting an increase in speed in an already over populated and over subscribed area.
Doubtfull anyone will expand into Hull as Kcom have the monoploy there. BT's FTTC will go from 40/10 to 80/20 in March, has the potenital to go up to 200mb. BT's FTTP goes to 300MB this spring. Only thing we know from Sky about fibre is there trials by staff members and in a area of london, should hopefully have something this year- similar to how TT buy Fibre services from OR. For the money that Virgin is spending, it will increase capacity but will likly make more areas congested as people move onto the faster packages then wonder why they only get 1mb etc. Virgin wont do any major expansion of their network as it would make them have SMP and reduce their margins, large inestment would be needed as well to cope with the increased demand. Virgin is waiting on Fijitsu to expand there reach as the issue for new build is cost of doing so, as this was how NTL/Telewest ran up their debts originally. So far Fijitsu is in a trial stage and in the final part of the bidding process for CC bduk funds.
Is that a full upgrade for all FTTC in March? My exchange is set to go live on the 31st March, so will that be for 40 or 80? That said, BT's Infinity pages are definitely talking about 100mbit rather than 80. Also, BT FTTP? Where?!
Not a lot to tell, as rightly pointed out earlier Sky will buy wholesale from BT, Sky have trialled laying their own fibre - unfortunately it will most likely be a non starter.
A exchange going live does not mean that you're cabinet will be upgraded, if it is then you will be able to get a FTTC service. The upgrade is a software one so all 40/10 products will go to 80/20, line distance will matter as the last part from cab to home is still copper/aluminum. FTTP is being rolled out in certain areas in London/Milton Keynes/Cornwall where BT has found the investment worth the cost or in Cornwall where a combination of EU funding and their own funding has produced a very large pot for the county. Will eventually see FTTP replace FTTC over the years but this is a while off as FTTC can go above 100Mb, possibly to 200Mb. Sky will proably end up offering similar to what TT does from BTs fibre.
Anyone know what the proposed new upload speeds will be? TBH my 20Mbit connection is rarely saturated down, but I desperately need more on the up!
