Sent from my iPad On 17 Aug 2017, at 11:09, Paul Mansfield <[email protected]> wrote:
> I chose them purely to illustrate what service people might currently > get if they're lucky to have a copper phone line in good condition > which isn't too long, has low cross-talk etc. You mean the majority of premises? > >> Our vision is FTTP everywhere (has been for some time) but that's a 10+ >> years (more like 20) or longer project. NGA and G.FAST are great ways to get >> more speed out quickly, check the pace of all the FTTP companies if you >> don't believe me - demand for these high speed services is very poor and if >> I look at customers on higher speed services few of them ever use more than >> 40-50M sustained . Did I mention we need to make a return? > > > thanks. there's an element of "we don't get much demand for FTTP from > domestic properties", but then when I try and get FTTP as a domestic > user I can't find anyone seemingly able to take an order for it. Because when we look at demand and we look at what people are willing to pay for that demand we find a big gap. On this list we are the significant minority of people who will pay for construction. The majority however is what makes a case work and the research we have done shows very uncertain demand and very uncertain willingness to pay. Do the sums; look at BT's cash flow, pick a number that you think would be a per premise cost, pick what you think people are willing to pay, do a monte carlo on it... > I don't think anyone is particularly impressed with Ofcom. Or gov't > policies on taxing fibre. Well what is taxed just moves the problem around, we waste too much simple as. > And there's a lot of domestic customers who seem to prefer to pay the > absolute bare minimum and put up with a crappy service and moan about > it! I've had people go wide-eyed when I tell them I pay Zen £42 a > month including line rental, because they pay less than half that for > crappy ADSL which they b*tch about all the time. Actually when you dig in to the reasons of what makes customers unhappy (other than billing or ordering cockups), what seems to drive it is wifi more than the DSL, there are issues on DSL of course, but the rate of performance on xDSL has got significantly better over time. Neil.
