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OTOH: Openreach adds 178 exchanges, but how many cabinets?
Published 14:34, 13 December 11
By Richi Jennings (@richi
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BT (LON:BT.A) Openreach will upgrade 178 more exchanges to fibre by 2014. That means more businesses and consumers will be able to get headline speeds of 40, 80, or even 300 Mb/s.
Plus, today's skateboarding duck: (sqrt(cos(x))*cos(400*x)+sqrt(abs(x))-0.4)*(4-x*x)^0.1...
Kelly Fiveash reports:
Sooraj Shah adds:
Sean Buckley explains the abbreviations:
David Meyer breaks it down:
But Adam Smith ponders the less lucky consumers:
Today's Skateboarding Duck...
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).BT (LON:BT.A) Openreach will upgrade 178 more exchanges to fibre by 2014. That means more businesses and consumers will be able to get headline speeds of 40, 80, or even 300 Mb/s.
- On the one hand, it's good to see plenty of plans for FTTC and FTTP outside of built-up areas.
- On The Other Hand, there are still far too many premises not served by fibre-enabled cabinets, even though their exchange is enabled: as ever, the Devil is in the detail.
Plus, today's skateboarding duck: (sqrt(cos(x))*cos(400*x)+sqrt(abs(x))-0.4)*(4-x*x)^0.1...
Kelly Fiveash reports:
BT...plans to deploy its fibre technology to a further 178 exchanges...the majority...in 2012. Once...complete, around 1.8 million homes and businesses will have access.
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The company said that 34 exchanges in Scotland, and 16 exchanges in Wales would be upgraded.
Sooraj Shah adds:
The company said that [these and] the exchanges previously announced, will help it...[deliver] superfast broadband to two thirds of UK premises by the end of 2014.
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[But] to cover 90 per cent of UK premises...BT is relying on public sector stimulus, such as those funds being administered by...Broadband Delivery UK.
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BT said that the...additional bandwidth...allows businesses to work more efficiently. ... The new fibre speed will...double to 80Mbit/s in 2012.
Sean Buckley explains the abbreviations:
[The] network rollout...will incorporate a mixture of both Fiber to the Cabinet (FTTC) and Fiber to the Premises (FTTP). ... [BT] plans to upgrade the speed of its FTTP offering to 300 Mbps in 2012.
David Meyer breaks it down:
The exchanges...include 17 locations in Cornwall that will be upgraded as part of the part-EU funded fibre programme for that county. ... The Scottish rollout will give access to more than 277,000 homes and businesses, and the Welsh...to nearly 175,000.
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Some rival ISPs...recently quit the bidding process for certain regional deployments, saying the terms of the procurement process favoured BT.
But Adam Smith ponders the less lucky consumers:
The...less commercially viable and more remote parts of the UK, still remains a thorny issue.
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Recently it came to light that early rural broadband trials were going nowhere fast due to councils failing to organise provider contracts [or] putting the funding they’ve been given into use.
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