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Three Million UK Homes To Get Ultrafast Broadband By 2020

posted by Fnord666 on Sunday February 04 2018, @08:13PM   Printer-friendly
from the they've-seen-the-light dept.

"Arthur T Knackerbracket" has found the following story:

Openreach, the BT-owned firm that manages the UK's broadband infrastructure, has vowed to introduce "ultrafast" internet connections to three million premises by 2020. The company said it was accelerating its plan to run fibre connections directly to homes and businesses. It will increase internet speeds from 24 megabits a second under superfast broadband to 100 megabits. The first phase will begin this year, targeting eight cities across the UK.

[...] Too little, too late. That is how BT's many critics will characterise the plan to bring full fibre connections into as many as 10 million homes by 2025. They have always argued that the UK should have opted long ago for a national future-proof fibre-to-the-home network. Instead, BT's approach has been to lay fibre to cabinets on the street and then rely on good old copper cables to take broadband into the home.

[...] with the government switching tack and insisting "full fibre" is now the answer, BT has seen the light - though as its statement makes clear the speed of the rollout will depend on an "acceptable" return on its investment.

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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 04 2018, @09:50PM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 04 2018, @09:50PM (#633034)

    Yeah, right. I received a letter from BT last week proposing to be among the first to get that FTTH. Different types of contracts with 100Mbps to 300Mbps and a 100Mbps guaranteed minimum speed. The downside: only available as 18-month contracts with huge cancellation fees, and priced at 70£/months.

    Thanks, but no thanks.

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  • (Score: 2) by Absolutely.Geek on Sunday February 04 2018, @09:58PM (2 children)

    by Absolutely.Geek (5328) on Sunday February 04 2018, @09:58PM (#633035)

    lame.

    In New Zealand I pay $80/month (~£41.5) for 100/20 Mbps unlimited fibre. I could go as high as 1000/500 but that would be a "business" connection and be around $250/month. I often see DL speeds in excess of 10MB/s

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    • (Score: 3, Informative) by Absolutely.Geek on Sunday February 04 2018, @10:02PM

      by Absolutely.Geek (5328) on Sunday February 04 2018, @10:02PM (#633037)

      Just checked through my provider; I could now get a residential class connection at 900/400 Mbps for $105/month....almost tempting.

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    • (Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Sunday February 04 2018, @10:42PM

      by PartTimeZombie (4827) on Sunday February 04 2018, @10:42PM (#633048)

      I am in the same boat.

      It did however take me about 3 weeks to get the actual speed changed to 100 mbps.

      The dirty lying liars at my ISP kept telling me it really was 100 when I could see it was 30. They might have got sick of me complaining and fixed it.

  • (Score: 2) by TheRaven on Monday February 05 2018, @12:01PM

    by TheRaven (270) on Monday February 05 2018, @12:01PM (#633244) Journal
    Is that just for places they have't rolled it out already? We have their 52Mb/s plan (new build, fibre installed when the house was built), for which we're paying £31.49/month with an 18-month contract (annoying cancellation terms, though we can cancel with no penalty if they put the price up). For most things, the bottleneck is WiFi speed or the remote end and I haven't really cared about download speed since it passed about 30Mb/s. It gives 10Mb/s upstream, which is about the point where I stop caring, though a bit more would be nice.
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