Are you talking about..
Talkback Virgin actually laying FTTP or FTTC? as far as I understand it for the area that I'm in Comcast originally laid the cables in this area, and that was FTTC and thick steel coated copper lines x2 per household.
[October 12, 2009, 9:56]
BT reveals first locations for super-fast broadband
News This summer it is piloting FTTC in Muswell Hill, London and Whitchurch, Wales. The telco's local-access division Openreach will deploy fibre-to-the-cabinet (FTTC) at 29 exchanges across the UK from early 2010, bringing speeds of up to 40Mbps — and...
[March 24, 2009, 7:24]
Glasgow to get fibre sooner after London complaints
News Fibre-to-the-cabinet (FTTC) technology is currently being trialled in the north London suburb of Muswell Hill, as well as in the Cardiff suburb of Whitchurch. A faster option is fibre-to-the-home (FTTH), which involves fibre being run directly to...
[August 17, 2009, 16:52]
BT's fibre-to-the-cabinet pilot goes live
News The pilot follows an internal Openreach trial in Ipswich of fibre-to-the-cabinet (FTTC) technology, which achieves speeds of up to 40Mbps. FTTC involves installing fibre up to a cabinet in a street, and the homes and businesses in that street use...
[July 6, 2009, 16:15]
BT to speed up next-gen broadband rollout
News Last year, BT announced it would spend £1.5bn by 2012 to fund a fibre to the cabinet (FTTC) rollout aimed at hooking up 40 percent of UK homes and businesses, some 10 million premises. Earlier this year, the telco named the first 29 exchanges which...
[May 15, 2009, 18:24]
Broadband group outlines fibre rollout costs
News The lower figure represents the likely cost of rolling out fibre to the street cabinet (FTTC), as that solution reuses the existing copper connection between the cabinet and homes or small businesses.
[September 8, 2008, 17:27]
BT to run fast fibre to 2.5m homes
News There are two ways to do this: run the fibre from the exchange to the street cabinet (fibre-to-the-cabinet, or FTTC), or run it all the way to the home or business premises (FTTP). FTTC is cheaper to roll out, but it only allows for slower speeds...
[October 9, 2009, 16:57]
BT sets date for brownfield fibre trials
News This rollout will consist of both FTTP, which involves fibre being laid right up to buildings, and fibre-to-the-cabinet (FTTC), which involves fibre being laid as far as the street cabinet. David Campbell, the managing director of next-generation...
[October 2, 2009, 17:39]
well..
Talkback Weather using FTTH/P or FTTC methods this is not really the issue everyone one should be worrying about because they will have lay/laid more than enough cabling, what customers should be worried about is the server backbone infrastructures, if...
[September 28, 2009, 9:33]
Ofcom launches fibre-access consultation
News BT is reluctant to spend billions of pounds installing fibre to the home (FTTH) or fibre to the cabinet (FTTC) while regulations state it would have to give rival providers equivalent access to those connections.
[September 26, 2007, 15:17]
BT fibre broadband coming to 69 more towns
News Almost 70 exchanges have been named to receive fibre broadband, using a mixture of fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) and fibre-to-the-cabinet (FTTC). The less costly FTTC could deliver downstream speeds of up to 40Mbps and an uplink of between 5Mbps and...
[July 9, 2009, 18:20]
London to get first BT brownfield FTTH trial
News BT's fibre rollout will therefore mostly entail fibre-to-the-cabinet (FTTC), where fibre-optic connectivity is extended as far as the street cabinet, and the connections between the cabinet and buildings remains copper-based.
[August 7, 2009, 17:00]
PM's spending plans may pave way for fibre rollout
News Any government fibre plans are likely to focus on fibre-to-the-cabinet (FTTC) rather than fibre-to-the-home (FTTH), due to the costs involved: a recent report by the Broadband Stakeholder Group priced FTTC at £5.1bn, compared to £28.8bn for full...
[January 6, 2009, 11:28]
Openreach releases ISP pricing for London fibre trial
News BT's fibre rollout will therefore mostly entail fibre-to-the-cabinet (FTTC), where fibre-optic connectivity is extended as far as the street cabinet, and the connections between the cabinet and buildings remain copper-based.
[September 22, 2009, 16:46]
No-brainer is the answer!
Talkback NGA fibre will provide far better service 24/7 - as long as the regulators (OFCOM) require there to be a maximum distance from cabinet (for an FTTC service) to subscriber of no more than 1 Km. Let's put it this way: if NGA is provided at a...
[October 1, 2007, 12:46]
Lack of 'killer app' stalling fibre rollout
News Without investment to improve broadband infrastructure — such as fibre to the home (FTTH) and fibre to the cabinet (FTTC) — Fogg said the danger is "the next big thing on the internet may not work in the UK".
[November 22, 2007, 14:04]
BT to roll out fibre to 10m UK homes
News BT's fibre rollout will be a mix of FTTH and fibre to the cabinet (FTTC), with the former taking place at new-build developments such as Ebbsfleet and the Olympic Village, and the latter being used primarily for existing residential developments.
[July 15, 2008, 11:09]
Report maps out Britain's broadband future
News Much of the debate surrounding the incentives for getting operators to roll out NGA has focused on fibre to the home (FTTH) or fibre to the street cabinet (FTTC). A major, independent review into the delivery of next-generation broadband access in...
[September 12, 2008, 16:10]
