On Mon Jan 06, 2014 at 03:00:58PM +0000, Charlie Boisseau wrote: > You?re right - this is the same with all BT Openreach services - they provide > a shelf, an NTE, dedicated monitoring etc. etc. However BT Wholesale have > the flexibility to do things in a more sensible way and are competing with > the likes of SSE, Level3, Virgin etc. who all offer wavelength services on a > per-port basis rather than a per-platform basis.
You'd think so, but I've just had a quote back from BTW for a 1G backhaul circuit from a *BT exchange* (i.e. you can't really get more on-net than that, can you?) to either a major Manchester or a London DC (you'd think that'd be on-net, wouldn't you). That'll be 11k/year for the 1G Etherway at the Exchange end, 12k/year for the 1G Etherway at the DC end, and 17k/year for the 1G Etherflow. Grand total ~40k/year for 1G. Even Vodafone (C&W) and Virgin Media are not far off 50% of that price, and others like SSE or Exponential-E can be as low as 25% of the BTW price. In what way is this competitive? :) Simon
