BT Dramatically Expands Fibre Rollout

Sponge Bob

According to what I hear from up north, County Down, in Northern Ireland, will have more BT fibre and by May 2011 than all of eircoms network and will have more fibre enabled nodes than all of eircoms network This announcement is a topup.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/10111724.stm

The fibre rollout can begin in earnest says Ofcom BT has announced that it will expand its roll-out of next-generation broadband to bring super-fast services to two-thirds of the UK.
Originally its fibre services, offering speeds of up to 40 megabits per second (Mbps), were due to reach around 40% of the population by 2012.
A £1bn investment will see the project roll out to a further 20% of the population by 2015.

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The telco had previously committed to spend £1.5bn on its fibre network by 2012 but is now able to invest a further £1bn, said Ms Garfield. She said of the 66% of the population who will have access to the fibre network, one quarter will have fibre to the home.
"That will have download speeds of 100 Mbps and uploads of 30 Mbps," she told BBC News.
The rest will have "fibre to the cabinet", meaning that the fast cables will reach street side cabinets. This will offer download speeds of 40Mbps, said Ms Garfield.

€1.1bn to provide FTTn to another 12m people......so it would cost them in the low hundreds of millions to do the most urban 2m of the Irish population. Did eircom not say it would cost them half a billion to do the 10 largest towns with less than 2m people between them ?? when in fact it should cost perhaps €150m.

And it would take eircom 7 years and deliver 25mbits. BT will do it in 5 years and will deliver 50mbits. The delivery date for both schemes is 2015. eircom has not yet finished the 330 ADSL exchanges it announced 3 years ago

rob808

Sponge Bob wrote: »

According to what I hear from up north, County Down, in Northern Ireland, will have more BT fibre and by May 2011 than all of eircoms network and will have more fibre enabled nodes than all of eircoms network This announcement is a topup.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/10111724.stm



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?1.1bn to provide FTTn to another 12m people......so it would cost them in the low hundreds of millions to do the most urban 2m of the Irish population. Did eircom not say it would cost them half a billion to do the 10 largest towns with less than 2m people between them ?? when in fact it should cost perhaps ?150m.

And it would take eircom 7 years and deliver 25mbits. BT will do it in 5 years and will deliver 50mbits. The delivery date for both schemes is 2015. eircom has not yet finished the 330 ADSL exchanges it announced 3 years ago

The sad thing is Eircom 4 billion in debt and could never give us VDSL+2 or even ADSL+2.The government the only one that could help but we all well know that never going to happen.Were at basically at the bottom broadband league table were just a head of mexico how sad is that lol.It good to know britain won't be left in the 20th century like ireland is at the moment.

Sponge Bob

rob808 wrote: »

good to know britain won't be left in the 20th century like ireland is at the moment.

I am sure that Eamon Ryan sent them best wishes for whatever they are up to over there...even if he understands not a jot of it

trekkypj

Ah well when the revolution comes and Eircom comes crashing down, someone will step up and finally invest in fibre.:rolleyes: