BT adds 300 locations to fibre roll-out

300 locations...

...and most of them are London.

Thanks, BT.

By martincwday on 30 Mar 2010

NO GOOD TO ME

My town isn't on the list. Still smarting at having to leave a Virgin Cable area.

Wasters.

By kaneclem on 30 Mar 2010

xD

both where i live now and where i use to live are there, im happy :D

By Deathtaker27 on 30 Mar 2010

Only England & Wales then

Maybe I'm shortsighted, but no mention of Scotland or the North East of England for that matter. Time to rename "British Telecom" perhaps??

By Narnain on 30 Mar 2010

bah!

I know its based on return on investment and the higher density areas are picked to get it first but its not nice being left out as the poor cousin all the time up here in Scotland. Not even a token gesture for Glasgow or Edinburgh!

By Bluespider on 30 Mar 2010

@Bah!

Tough, at least you lot have got digital TV coverage, the rest of us including London have to wait until 2012!

By a_byrne22 on 30 Mar 2010

Only England & Wales then

Maybe I'm shortsighted, but no mention of Scotland or the North East of England for that matter. Time to rename "British Telecom" perhaps??

By Narnain on 30 Mar 2010

You caould have sorted it

a simple alpha sort before publishing would have been helpful :-(

JH

By JohnHo1 on 30 Mar 2010

Not on the list :(

Thanks Mrs. Thatcher.

By Arcavexx on 30 Mar 2010

I'm on the list!

By TimoGunt on 30 Mar 2010

did not expect that

I'm on the list and we only have a population of 12000

By SimonCorlett on 30 Mar 2010

Would have happened years ago

If BT had not been sold off, this would have happened 20 years ago. The government have had the money from the sale and wasted it. They should put that back in to the benefit of all.

By eccles32 on 30 Mar 2010

If BT had not been sold off, this would have happened 20 years ago.

You really believe that!? You don't remember party lines and all that do you?

JH

By JohnHo1 on 30 Mar 2010

BT's begging bowl

A contracting company manager who worked on a local rural infrastructure update gave me the impression, from my questions, that BT could have updated to fibre with only a slight cost increase but did not due to the government not having crossed their palms at the time. It's not only the pension pot that is dire at the company at the moment. Roll on 3+/4G mobile broadband in rural areas. Good riddance non customer focused and greedy / needy BT.

By ColinC1000 on 31 Mar 2010

Infrastructure updates

That's a very good point raised by ColinC

Many of the exchanges around the country will need to have their wiring & equipment updated/renewed on a rolling programme.
How much does this cost BT to replace old copper/aluminium with new copper and how much more will it be to use fibre instead?

In depth investigation from a good journalist required, I think...

By greemble on 31 Mar 2010

The South West is poorly represented

Just had a look at the list and only Exeter in the South west is there No Plymouth Truro Bristol Taunton Very odd
Come on BT we don't have Cable here so perhaps no need to install and compete!

By knapmanr on 1 Apr 2010

the north

BT has done it again most of the locations are down south so disappointing to the people how live up north

By shady on 1 Apr 2010

WATFORD GAP

Once again they think their is no life north of the Watford Gap.

By IMACOMPUTERBUDD1 on 1 Apr 2010

What about Rural Britain

I'm happy as I'll be getting the upgrade, but my mum who lives 10 miles from the city (and 5.9Km down a copper line) is languishing at 512-1mb speed, and having to pay a damn sight more for doing so. How is that progress?

By Thompson9100 on 2 Apr 2010

It could have happened 20 + Years ago

BT did look at rolling out fibre to the home in the mid 80's, in return for the investment it wanted it's licence changed so that it could carry broadcast content over the network. The government at the time thought this would be unfair on all the cable companies that were then setting up (dispite the fact they all had big backers !!) so it was rejected.
The cable companies collapsed one by one, leaving a legacy of incompatible systems which will take years to integrate (and much investment).
BT had it's hands tied to try and create competition and was almost driven to extinction and instead of having a world class national infrastructure, we're stuck with the piecmeal mess we have now.
The only competition came in the large conubations and with the business traffic.
I can't see residential users picking up the true cost of upgrading the whole infrastructure somehow.

By RobinT on 6 Apr 2010