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I’m in a rural village and even we got full fibre last year. It’s happening because the government is allowing shutting off the copper ASDL network next year so
by physicsguy 11mo ago
I’m in a rural village and even we got full fibre last year. It’s happening because the government is allowing shutting off the copper ASDL network next year so it has to be done and soon.
- gambiting 11mo agoIronically small villages got fibre much faster than some of the bigger cities in the UK because there were many different schemes to bring fibre to those communities. Not that long ago I was in a truly idiotic situation where in the middle of a 1M+ city I couldn't get anything above 50mbps, but a friend of mine living literally in the middle of Northumberland in a village of maybe 50 people had 1gbps fibre directly to his house(and very cheap too!)
- Arnt 11mo agoWhat's "truly idiotic" about that?
- gambiting 11mo agoI mean I thought it's pretty obvious?
- Arnt 11mo agoMany things are only obvious until you try to spell out the details. Do installed cables, switches etc. have a shorter lifetime in the cities, such that they'll be replaced more often and thus will tend to be newer and better? Does fibre face less competition from installed alternatives in the cities than in the countryside, such that digging is more likely to be profitable? I live in the city. This street was supplied with 20-100Mbps DSL early on. Now the ISPs don't want to dig here, because selling fibre against the installed DSL connections is so difficult.