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Vodafone Considering Nationwide FTTP?

Bob2002

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The chief executive of Vodafone has suggested broadband operators should club together to build an ultrafast broadband network for Britain.

Vittorio Colao said his company would be willing to invest with rivals in laying fibre optics into homes and businesses. It came as he continues to hold talks with Liberty Global that could see Vodafone’s UK mobile network combined with the Virgin Media cable network.

He backed calls for BT to be forced to sell off its network division Openreach, dismissing its plans for a multi-billion pound upgrade to broadband technology, called G.fast, as “yesterday’s vision and the vision of a monopolist”.

G.fast aims to squeeze higher speeds from the copper wires that currently make the final connection into premises, saving billions compared with replacing the wires with fibre optics.

“I think Britain needs more fibre, not more expensive football, which is what is happening now,” said Mr Colao.

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Love the "expensive football" jibe ... :nod:
 
If they do go FTTP and VM from Liberty Global, I can see this getting a little messy, having one ISP offering DOCSIS, ADSL, VDSL, FTTP and mobile. How will they explain it to consumers...
 
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If they do go FTTP and Liberty Global, I can see this getting a little messy, having one ISP offering DOCSIS, ADSL, VDSL, FTTP and mobile. How will they explain it to consumers...

From what I've seen in other European countries they seem to advertise cable as cable (not fibre), adsl/vdsl as copper or standard networks, then FTTB/P as fibre/optical.

I might be wrong but I don't think I've seen VDSL advertised as fibre optic anywhere other than here in the UK. It's shameful that we've really let them get away with it.
 
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If they do go FTTP and Liberty Global

Lets not get ahead of ourselves, Liberty Global and Vodaphone have not merged businesses or gone further than possible exchange in assets.

or are you referring to Liberty Global and Virgin Media, which is owned by Liberty Global?
 
I wonder what coverage would be like? I'm in a town of 35,000, Mr Aquiss is in a town of 12,000 - Virgin aren't interested in digging up the roads in these towns, would Vodafone and friends be any different with a fibre network?
 
Right now this is all just politics, linked to the massive push for Openreach's separation, and I would put very little credibility in anything Vodafone has to say; although this may change if they ever grab a piece of Virgin Media via Liberty Global (seems to be increasingly plausible).

But until then Vodafone have only just re-entered the consumer home broadband space and so far they've not exactly taken the best approach, much like the first time around (it might have been better to take a small PR hit and wait until they could do nationwide coverage).

So for now there's no chance of them going FTTH/P or even putting money into that unless they gobble another ISP and gain some real market influence beyond mobile. Even then we should question how much investment Vodafone might be willing to put into an independent Openreach.
 
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