David Across the country -£billions. I can do millions of homes with GFAST at a cost that is _several_ orders of magnitude lower than FTTP and at a rate of millions per year where to do 1m FTTP homes would be a world record (and don't forget what our housing stock is in the U.K.!).
Regards, Neil Sent from my iPhone > On 16 Aug 2017, at 21:46, David Derrick <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 16/08/2017 21:04, Neil J. McRae wrote: >> If your quick crack on- but with USO, 4GPro, GFAST and 5G our intent >> is to offer our services everywhere - we have been clear about that >> for sometime. > > We do have 4G if you get in exactly the right spot by the window, but the > data caps make it impractical for family connectivity. (Satellite has a > similar problem). > > g.fast sounds like another half-arsed excuse not to do fibre properly. On our > island pretty much everyone only gets a flaky 1Mbps, by the time you've > patched it up to do g.fast how much extra would it have been to just go full > fibre? > > The USO is what makes things a bit more interesting. Without it I'd be very > surprised to see Openreach upgrading the smaller islands so community > projects like this one would have a lot more time to raise money, recruit > volunteers and build their network. But now there's a time limit. If > Openreach are only going to sweat their copper a bit more with yet more DSL > then community fibre may still be viable, but if they're going to decide to > do the job once and do it properly, which means FTTP, then maybe not. > -- > David Derrick > Systems & Network Engineer > Entanet International Ltd > 0330 100 0330 >
