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On a lot of the green street cabinets is effectively a massive advert for BT by Openreach (big white sticker, covering most of the cabinet). The green cabinets
by tonylemesmer 11y ago
On a lot of the green street cabinets is effectively a massive advert for BT by Openreach (big white sticker, covering most of the cabinet). The green cabinets are supposed to be discreet, I wonder if the banner pasted on the side is included in any of their planning applications?
- DanBC 11y agoTalk to your LA councillor!
- kennydude 11y agoOne near to me last year said "Superfast BT broadband is here". Apparently superfast to be BT means unreliable 8mbps
- jasonkester 11y agoThat message isn't meant to give you hope. It's a taunt. It's saying "superfast broadband is here in this cabinet, but will never make it the extra 50 feet to your house". I've had that sticker on a cabinet at the end of my road for three years now. But still just sketchy DSL offered to my house. According to BT's helpful "when the F is Fibre going to F'ng make it to my area" page, my postcode is going to be ready in "March 2016". But then that page used to say March 2015, March 2014 and March 2013 since I've been checking. At least it's always March, so I don't have to get my hopes up more than once a year.
- elthran 11y agoI also hate having to do this mental adjustment - in my head, even 40Mbps isn't "superfast" - it's above the national average, sure - give me 100Mbps, then maybe you can justify using that label
- signal11 11y agoSadly, superfast broadband has a different definition depending on who you ask. http://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2014/08/lets-stop-different-uk-definitions-superfast-broadband.html http://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2014/08/lets-stop-diffe... And now I see Ofcom are throwing terms like "ultrafast" broadband around. I wish they'd just quote minimum speeds (Ofcom's universal service obligation minimum is 10Mbps).