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Story: Unlimited-broadband offers to go 'within a year'

Posted by: D Tomlinson (Monday 17 March 2008, 4:32 PM)

The Limits to Bandwidth

We effectively have fiber to the exchange (BT and BSkyB)
The limits on bandwidth, is in the aspirations of the telecom companies, as Japan has demonstrated.

The current limits to bandwidth (in the UK) are the copper local loop.

About 12-20Mb/s using ADSL2+, no-one is currently pushing this limit.
(notional 8Mb/s with bandwidth fair use cap)

And the monopoly power of BT's pricing of bandwidth.

This is the current limiting factor for ISP's dependent on BT for bandwidth. BSkyB and Virgin are not subject to this restriction, so BT can relax this restriction or risk losing market share (wholesale and retail) to these two media companies.

There is scope for bandwidth growth, players: next moves please.

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