In article o.uk, Dave
Liquorice scribeth thus
On Mon, 21 Sep 2015 22:59:47 +0100, tony sayer wrote:

I tell you what I know of quite a few people who'd PAY them to come and
dig outside their front doors now as they can only get sub 1 meg speeds
on so called broadband and thats not too far out in the county
either!...

B-)

They wouldn't have to do much digging here, 96 core fibre going down
to the village's FTTC passes through a chamber 10 yards from the
house, it's believed there is a fibre node 200 m away in the
direction of the exchange. Pretty sure Hexham where the other end of
the fibre is has Virgin so they just rent a bit of dark fibre from BT
Openreach, and 200 m of duct, simples. (Does Virgin FTTP kit work on
the end of 40 km of fibre?)


I believe, tho I might be wrong, think its to do with the kit that
breaks down the fibre into more usable chunks. As to VM fibre it does
run a very long way the right type of fibre and in any case fibre
repeaters can and are used as required. However I believe that BT now
have a lot of capacity that they want to make available to more for
less than current costs so they say....

Perhaps its an issue with the cost of the plant required for accessing
it?.
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Tony Sayer