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By Simon Bisson & Mary Branscombe in Editorial

Posted in Business, Futures, Networking, Internet on July 31, 2008 at 2:47 pm

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BT shareholders should stop worrying about the cost of fibre. Everyone wants fast broadband and the current plans aren’t so expensive that they’ll take years to pay off.

I noticed the other day that the market didn’t take well to the news that BT is really moving forward on plans to roll out fibre across to the UK to drag broadband speeds into the 21st century (think 8Mbps DSL is fast? - check out Korea, or Paris where they’re laying 30Mbps fibre). Cable coverage in the UK is a joke (NTL bought the cheapest demographic data it could find for high population density and ended up cabling multiple occupancy council estates where it couldn’t get licenses to offer a service and running out of money before it got round all the consumers and small businesses that actually wanted cable modems).

Now the analysts at Point Topic have done some interesting sums. BT’s proposal to cover 40% of the homes in the UK for

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Comment by Matt - August 1, 2008 on 2:02 pm

Virginmedia make a point of how their broadband is by fibre, but the truth is that Viginmedia is HFC (Hybrid fibre / Co-ax), while I would guess that significant parts of BT’s backbone are also fibre.

Fibre to the home would be a major step forward, and you can almost see a time when IP protocol telephony will be the norm, and the remainder of the “plain old telephone service” will be implemented using Voip router boxes.

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