UK ISP BE Broadband Moots Future Fibre Optic Internet Services
Posted: 16th Jul, 2010 By: MarkJ
Award winning UK ISP Be Broadband , which is currently offering 2 MONTHS FREE service (here) , confirms that it has begun investigating the prospects of offering a future "super-fast" fibre optic broadband service, most likely one that makes use of the up to 40Mbps BT based Fibre-to-the-Cabinet ( FTTC ) technology. A possible product name of BE fibre is also hinted at.Tom Williams, Managing Director of BE Broadband, said:
"We know you want faster speed; we know you want fibre. Admittedly, we’ve been rather quiet on the topic… mainly because we know how important it is. Although we recognise that it really is the key next step in the evolution of broadband, we don’t want to make promises that we’re unable to keep.
It’s time we said something, though, right?
We really want to offer you a fibre solution. We want to keep providing faster and faster speeds. However, we can’t afford to lay our own fibre network (unless, of course, Alex agrees to sell his collection of antique Happy Meal toys). Right now, we’re looking at the wholesale products available.
If we do this, then there’s likely to be some initial restrictions on what we can offer in terms of speed, support, and the general customer experience. But, for many of you, it will be faster. Whatever we offer, it won’t be perfect straight away – though it will improve over time."
"We know you want faster speed; we know you want fibre. Admittedly, we’ve been rather quiet on the topic… mainly because we know how important it is. Although we recognise that it really is the key next step in the evolution of broadband, we don’t want to make promises that we’re unable to keep.
It’s time we said something, though, right?
We really want to offer you a fibre solution. We want to keep providing faster and faster speeds. However, we can’t afford to lay our own fibre network (unless, of course, Alex agrees to sell his collection of antique Happy Meal toys). Right now, we’re looking at the wholesale products available.
If we do this, then there’s likely to be some initial restrictions on what we can offer in terms of speed, support, and the general customer experience. But, for many of you, it will be faster. Whatever we offer, it won’t be perfect straight away – though it will improve over time."
BE are asking for those interested in such a service to help them understand what existing customers actually want by completing their Great BE Fibre Survey. Back in 2005 BE were the first to market with an up to 24Mbps capable ADSL2+ service, though they won't be repeating that feat with fibre (already offered by BT , Virgin Media and others).
It will also be interesting to see whether BE gets such products before its larger parent. O2 is already months ahead of BE with their phone service, although broadband is more within BE's field of technical understanding and they might prefer to let them have first shot at any fibre trials. O2's existing broadband service uses BE's platform.
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