{"id":1112,"date":"2012-06-23T02:04:56","date_gmt":"2012-06-23T01:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=1112"},"modified":"2012-07-01T07:55:03","modified_gmt":"2012-07-01T06:55:03","slug":"cityfibre-accuse-bt-soft-peddling-rollout-true-fibre-broadband","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2012\/06\/cityfibre-accuse-bt-soft-peddling-rollout-true-fibre-broadband.html","title":{"rendered":"CityFibre Accuse BT of Soft Peddling on the Rollout of True Fibre Broadband"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/cityfibre\" target=\"_blank\">CityFibre<\/a> Holdings, which builds UK <strong>fibre optic<\/strong> broadband infrastructure (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/fttp\">FTTP<\/a>) for business, public sector and domestic needs, has criticised <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/britishtelecom\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">BT<\/a> for choosing to &#8220;<em>soft-pedal<\/em>&#8221; on the roll-out of true <strong>Fibre-to-the-Premises<\/strong> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/fttp\">FTTP<\/a>) based broadband services because of an &#8220;<em>overwhelming bias<\/em>&#8221; towards slower <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/fttc\">FTTC<\/a> technology.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Both <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/britishtelecom\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">BT<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/cityfibre\" target=\"_blank\">CityFibre<\/a> make use of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/fttp\">FTTP<\/a> style technology, which runs a high capacity fibre optic cable directly to your home or business. This cuts out the interference and instability of using existing copper cable and can thus deliver speeds of up to and possibly beyond <strong>1Gbps<\/strong> (Gigabits per second). Unfortunately it&#8217;s also prohibitively expensive for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/britishtelecom\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">BT<\/a> alone to roll-out on a truly national scale.<\/p>\n<p>As a result the operator&#8217;s <strong>\u00a32.5bn<\/strong> superfast broadband deployments are dominated by <strong>Fibre-to-the-Cabinet<\/strong> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/fttc\">FTTC<\/a>), which delivers a fast fibre optic cable to BT&#8217;s <strong>street cabinets<\/strong>. The remaining connection (between cabinets and homes) is done using <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/vdsl\">VDSL2<\/a> (like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/adsl\">ADSL<\/a> but faster over short distances) via existing copper cable. It&#8217;s much cheaper but also significantly slower over longer lines.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bq1\"><p><strong>James Enck, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/cityfibre\" target=\"_blank\">CityFibre<\/a>&#8217;s Head of Corporate Development, said:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>If the accounts of BT\u2019s recent message to the House of Lords Select Committee are to be believed [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2012\/06\/bt-claim-ofcom-rules-hamper-uk-superfast-broadband-investment.html\" target=\"_blank\">related article here<\/a>]. It is entirely unsurprising to observers of NGA developments in the UK that BT would choose to soft-pedal on true FTTP, given its overwhelming bias towards <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/fttc\">FTTC<\/a> in its Infinity deployment.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The company also clearly has constraints in terms of its ability to radically change course. As the company\u2019s latest results show, it ended its most recent financial year with \u00a3844m in cash and \u00a31.5bn in available banking facilities, which implies a significant amount of financial headroom if the company wanted to pour more money into capex in support of a rollout comprising more true FTTP. However, against this, the company must weigh the various interests of shareholders (dividend payments, share price maintenance), lenders (credit ratings) and its commitments to its pension recovery plan, which total \u00a32.4bn in top-up payments over the next nine years.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Given that anything remotely resembling a \u201cnuclear\u201d option on NGA investment would cause friction with stakeholders on all sides, our own back-of-the envelope working assumption on BT\u2019s effective annual headroom for additional fibre investment has been around the \u00a31bn mark. However, even this sort of incremental commitment to fibre investment would no doubt prompt some uncomfortable conversations with influential shareholders<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>CityFibre&#8217;s &#8220;<em>back-of-the envelope working<\/em>&#8221; isn&#8217;t terribly difficult to arrive at because BT has already pledged to <strong>invest an additional \u00a31bn<\/strong> (total \u00a33.5bn) into an expanded roll-out of superfast broadband services. But that would be contingent upon the operator winning a <strong>lions share<\/strong> of public subsidy and they&#8217;d still need a lot more to do a true fibre deployment, with some earlier estimates pointing to <strong>\u00a315bn-\u00a320bn<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>At present BT&#8217;s \u00a32.5bn will help their superfast broadband services pass around 66% of the UK population come 2014 (it currently covers almost 40%), which could be extended to <strong>90% by 2017<\/strong> with the governments entire <a href=\"http:\/\/www.culture.gov.uk\/what_we_do\/telecommunications_and_online\/7781.aspx\" target=\"_new\">Broadband Delivery UK<\/a> (BDUK) office <strong>budget of \u00a3530m<\/strong>; plus an extra <strong>\u00a3300m<\/strong> from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/bbc\" target=\"_blank\">BBC<\/a> between 2015 and 2017 if necessary. There&#8217;s also that \u00a3150m <strong>Urban Broadband Fund<\/strong> to consider (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2012\/03\/budget-2012-confirms-final-10-uk-cities-for-100m-ultrafast-broadband-fund.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>CityFibre suggests that BT could find more money if it needed and points to the operators recent <strong>\u00a3738m three-year football rights deal<\/strong> for its BTVision (IPTV) service, which they claim is only good as a &#8220;<em>short-term commitment<\/em>&#8221; and would perhaps be better invested into the &#8220;<em>long-term commitment [of] transforming the nature of connectivity in the UK market<\/em>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>In fairness BT tends to take a lot of flak over this and not all of it is fair. The operator has invested a significant amount of money and FTTC should be fine for most people, although some won&#8217;t received the best speeds and the day will certainly come when a more capable solution is required. Similarly BT must also deal with expensive rural areas, which other operators simply ignore.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime next year&#8217;s <strong>Spring 2013<\/strong> launch of <strong>FTTP-On-Demand<\/strong>, which effectively makes FTTP available almost anywhere that their slower FTTC service can already go (with a few caveats), might help to fill a few gaps (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/story\/2012\/02\/03\/uk-isp-bt-tops-6-14million-broadband-customers-and-expands-ultrafast-fibre-cover.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CityFibre Holdings, which builds UK fibre optic broadband infrastructure (FTTP) for business, public sector and domestic needs, has criticised BT for choosing to &#8220;soft-pedal&#8221; on the roll-out of true Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband services because of an &#8220;overwhelming bias&#8221; towards slower FTTC technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[474,52,55,65,56],"class_list":["post-1112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uk_isp_news","tag-bt","tag-fibre-optic","tag-fttc","tag-ftth","tag-fttp"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - 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