Sledgehammer
Posted: 24 September, 2011 - 9:13 PM
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Will INFINITY turn out to be a flop.

Tom
Posted: 25 September, 2011 - 3:47 PM
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Doubt it considering their pricing makes it almost stupid to not go for infinity vs. adsl based BT retail broadband.

Our neighbour who uses less than 20gb usage per month has gone and got infinity for no good reason other than it didn't make sense to stay on adsl, the cost of upgrading was very little or nothing extra per month.

Martin Pitt - Aquiss
Posted: 26 September, 2011 - 8:59 AM
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I think Sledgehammer raises a interesting view that BT Retail are already having to discount a leading edge product to get it moving within the market place.

Not one day goes by now where we get sales calls, FTTC being available, yet customers shy away from it as they feel the speeds from ADSL/2+ are perfect for their needs at this time.

I was speaking to an BT Openreach engineer only last week for one of FTTC installs. The cabinet has been ready 14 weeks, yet our customer was the first one to be connected. He went on to say that in the area he was working uptake on some cabs in the same period was sub 5%, well below BT expected figures.

Sledgehammer
Posted: 26 September, 2011 - 12:20 PM
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@Martin Pitt - Aquiss

Thanks for expanding on my thought, the only way I can see BT improving the use of FTTC is to phase out ADSL and ADSL/2+ over a period of time after 2015. When they might have some breathing space to implement it. It would force all other ISP providers to become fully involved with partial Fibre Optic provision.

Mike
Posted: 26 September, 2011 - 12:34 PM
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For me Fibre doesnt make sense, I currently get ~17Mbs on ADSL2 from Be, without traffic shaping. to get Fibre I would need to be paying at least double for a non-BT ISP