Fri, 10 Jul 2009 BT speeds up £1.5bn broadband roll-out plan across the UK

chris said on Fri, 10 Jul 2009

about time

weedfreer said on Fri, 10 Jul 2009

Fibre is the future??

Fibre was the future about 10-15 years ago!!

is the future - was the future - should have already been the future and then some!

Even the jaws of the Malaysians drop when their technicians visit UK telephone exchages...they are a relec of the past and need to be/should already have been overhauled!! Sod the share holders bottom line, this is affecting our ability to keep up with the rest of the world!

Phil Melton said on Fri, 10 Jul 2009

i live in Hull, and we have kapoo internet we got no chnace of ever geting fibre.....

James Donevan said on Fri, 10 Jul 2009

Makes a nice headline. Impact on customers is another matter entirely. We live in an area where the roll-out (to telephone exchanges) happened over a year ago. Still waiting for actual house lines to be updated, likely to be waiting years according to BT.

Kevin said on Fri, 10 Jul 2009

As ever we're at the mercy of BT. However, it seems no-one else is upto the job. The likes of Virgin are no good, if they don't even service the whole of my town!

We can whine all we like about BT, but it seems they're the only company that can do a nationwide network anyway.

Jon Holmes said on Fri, 10 Jul 2009

I live in Hull where our only option for broadband is Karoo. They are behind with technology, service and they charge more than BT or Sky for the pleasure. We have no chance of ever having a fibre optic network and we will fall further behind the rest of the country and the world!

Jon Holmes said on Fri, 10 Jul 2009

I live in Hull where our only option for broadband is Karoo. They are behind with technology, service and they charge more than BT or Sky for the pleasure. We have no chance of ever having a fibre optic network and we will fall further behind the rest of the country and the world!

Einstein said on Fri, 10 Jul 2009

BT say my line is due to be upgradeb by 30th Nov and could rise from 6 now to 8mbps.

Whoopppeee... BE offer 16 at the moment.

alem said on Fri, 10 Jul 2009

new line phone home

Wilson said on Fri, 10 Jul 2009

My broadband at Pevensey, is no faster than the old dialup connection, thanks to BT.
Then what do you expect when you live in a third world country

Jemima said on Fri, 10 Jul 2009

As long as they stay away from Phorm I am happy to keep paying them.

Haku said on Fri, 10 Jul 2009

Nice to see I'm helping to pay for people who already get faster speeds than I do get even faster speeds. That seems fair.

G said on Sat, 11 Jul 2009

This article is Based on BT Lies! Faster Broadband currently advertised at upto 20Mbps is as much of a lie as the upto 8Mbps broadband service.

Until BT deploy their 21CN Network of fibre to Termination points on all streets across Britain no one will ever obtain these speeds!

When the Fibre network is there, then you will potentially get a real 8mbps or 20Mbps if you want it as the Fibre to the end of your street will be your local loop.

I have friends i the States and Holland who get 100Mbps for less money than we pay for a 2Mbps service here.
We not leading in technology we are way behind by about 10 Years.

So don't run of and pat good old BT on the back yet, because the service they deliver to customers now is shocking and poor.

If you want mmore news on your local exchange go to a website called SamKnows. No FUD just facts.

Brian said on Sun, 12 Jul 2009

My current BT Total broadband speed is 320k, 1 meg would be nice. Especially as I pay the same as everyone else.

Slinky said on Sun, 12 Jul 2009

@G
Everybody knows that the advertised speed is a maximum and not everyone gets that. It's old news.

And it's not a BT thing either. So what you think it has to do with customer service is beyond me. I'm with BE and they advertise a 20meg line and I get 9.3meg.

Not that I'm complaining, mind.

And speaking of lies. There's no way anybody in the states gets 10Meg, let alone 100meg. Christ knows what you were drinking when you thought that one up. The US has a much worse internet system because the physical network is even older than ours; and the distances between exchanges ismuch further.

G said on Sun, 12 Jul 2009

Not drinking anything, I have friends there who have 50Mbps and more, perhaps you have just walked from the tardis and forgot what century your living in.

I have lived in NY myself and had in excess of 25Mbps cable, easy. So please don't call me a liar when your claims are unsubstantiated.

Rumors do not make facts. Having lived in the US I know what their Internet is capable of and its a darn site better than ours believe me.

Slinky said on Mon, 13 Jul 2009

Av speed 2.3meg and ranked 15th in world. Maybe in your corner of NY you get fast speed but most of US has pretty lousy Internet.

www.speedmatters.org/content/resources/