BT to complete super-fast broadband network by 2012

bealtine

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8424401.stm

BT's superfast broadband network will be completed in time for the 2012 Olympic Games, the firm has announced.

The £1.5bn fibre-optic network will offer speeds of up to 100 Megabits per second (Mbps) for some customers, supporting high-definition video.

However, it will only reach around 40% of homes, mainly in towns and cities.

The firm had originally said the programme would be completed by March 2013 but said the rollout was now "ahead of schedule" .

"Given the progress we're making, four million homes will have access to fibre by the end of next year," said Ian Livingston, CEO of BT.

He said the firm aims to offer 10m homes access to the fibre network "by the time the games begin" on the 27 July.

But extending the coverage would "inevitably involve support from the public sector", he added.

Customers will be able to access the highest speeds where BT runs fibre-optic cables all the way to their home.

However, the network will still offer speeds of up to 40 Mbps in areas where the fibre cable is run to BT-owned cabinets. In these fibre-to-the-cabinet areas, homes will still be connected to the cabinets by slower copper cables.

Currently, BT's rival Virgin Media offers some homes broadband speeds of up to 50 Mbps over fibre, regarded as super-fast broadband.

The UK government has said it wants super-fast broadband available to 90% of the country by the end of 2017 and everyone in the country to have access to broadband speeds of 2Mbps by 2012.

However, Mr Livingston called for further clarity from the UK government.

"If you look around the world, several governments are pro-actively supporting the roll out of fibre broadband," he said.

"There's still a debate in the UK - which is fine - but we need our politicians to decide how much of a priority fibre broadband is."

The government plans to introduce an annual tax of £6 to fund the rollout of broadband, particularly for rural areas.

Sponge Bob

These will be FTTC in the main and not FTTH. Northern Ireland will get its 1500 New Fibre Nodes by May 2011.

Meanwhile not a single VDSL cabinet, as promised by Pierre Danon in 2006 , is yet live in the 5 main cities here.

That was because eircom get greedy, expanded the initial list to maybe 12 towns and cities including Tullamore ( Cowen) and Dundalk ( Ahern) and chanced their arm at getting "up to" €500m off the government upfront + €200m to fix the pairgains while they were at it.

Seeing as they expected €700m in cash for guaranteeing absolutely NOTHING they were basically told to **** off and have been sulking ever since

rob808

Sponge Bob wrote: »

These will be FTTC in the main and not FTTH. Northern Ireland will get its 1500 New Fibre Nodes by May 2011.

Meanwhile not a single VDSL cabinet, as promised by Pierre Danon in 2006 , is yet live in the 5 main cities here.

That was because eircom get greedy, expanded the initial list to maybe 12 towns and cities including Tullamore ( Cowen) and Dundalk ( Ahern) and chanced their arm at getting "up to" ?500m off the government upfront + ?200m to fix the pairgains while they were at it.

Seeing as they expected ?700m in cash for guaranteeing absolutely NOTHING they were basically told to **** off and have been sulking ever since

The government we have at the moment don't have a clue how important our communication network is so they don't invest plus eircom could had upgraded our broadband from all the profits they made with there over price broadband but instead they got rich the owners and investors leaving the company in debt and the network crashing so anyone to blame it the investors and perverse owners and finna fail

watty

eircom hasn't had any investors.

Also the Broadband isn't so much overpriced. The Line rental is.

Simplistic Overview

1. Investor is someone who puts money in now to get growth to make more profit from Revenue. An Investor is in for the long term.
   
2. Speculators buy and sell shares in short term concerned only with share price, not investement or profits.
   
3. Asset strippers buy an undervalued company and then sell off part to realise their profit. They destroy companies long term prospects.
   
4. Unethical Financial traders use their worth, or just the worth of the company they are buying to borrow to buy a company and pay off the borrowing from the revenue by transferring the Debt to the Company (Leveraged Buyout).

I don't believe eircom has had the 1st kind since the Government sold it. STT at least is not the 4th kind. eircom has suffered most from 3rd & 4th kind.
It had 4 times debt of when it was privatised before STT bought it for 180Million. Meteor is worth over 1 billion if there was no recession.

rob808

watty wrote: »

eircom hasn't had any investors.

Also the Broadband isn't so much overpriced. The Line rental is.

Simplistic Overview

1. Investor is someone who puts money in now to get growth to make more profit from Revenue. An Investor is in for the long term.
   
2. Speculators buy and sell shares in short term concerned only with share price, not investement or profits.
   
3. Asset strippers buy an undervalued company and then sell off part to realise their profit. They destroy companies long term prospects.
   
4. Unethical Financial traders use their worth, or just the worth of the company they are buying to borrow to buy a company and pay off the borrowing from the revenue by transferring the Debt to the Company (Leveraged Buyout).

I don't believe eircom has had the 1st kind since the Government sold it. STT at least is not the 4th kind. eircom has suffered most from 3rd & 4th kind.
It had 4 times debt of when it was privatised before STT bought it for 180Million. Meteor is worth over 1 billion if there was no recession.

Well ESOT made 780million over the years tax free with eircom

watty

And how much has ESOT invested in to eircom (i.e. infrastructure) since creation?

Nothing. They are a parasite. I left that category out