Fibrecity

[Thrud]

http://www.fibrecity.eu/bournemouth/index.htm

Yes, you read that right, Bournemouth will be the first fibre City (Town!!) in the UK...

And yup, I'm in Bournemouth :)

[Lucifa]

lucky ****ers

[lukpri]

i read about this about 3 months ago...

being from weymouth im a very sad man !!

[Buffy]

It would be interesting to see your up time during the first few months.

[bvark]

"Who the providers are and the costs of the services are not yet available."

step 1. Trench fibre to every house in Bournemouth
step 2. ????
step 3. Profit

[Thrud]

Quite, it's all a bit shifty sounding at the moment with a lot of money being spent with no information about how they intend to make it back...

[Storm3y]

Why do Virgin Media say there lines are fiber?

[pen]

because they are fibre?

[SilentMike]

Why do Virgin Media say there lines are fiber?
They are fibre http://www.radioandtelly.co.uk/cabletv.html

[Storm3y]

Ahh right...

[Quietus]

"Who the providers are and the costs of the services are not yet available."

step 1. Run fibre through the sewers to every house in Bournemouth
step 2. ????
step 3. Profit

Fixed.

It's got to be those guys who suggested it before... since they say they're using the waste water network (i.e. sewers).

Ah, yes it is. http://www.h2onetworksdarkfibre.com/

[liv3d]

"Who the providers are and the costs of the services are not yet available."

step 1. Run fibre through the sewers to every house in Bournemouth
step 2. ????
step 3. Profit



Reminds me of this:
http://www.google.com/tisp/ :awesome:

[WhiteKnight]

They are fibre http://www.radioandtelly.co.uk/cabletv.html

Not FTTH tho. They only run fiber as far as the green base down the street. Its COAX the rest of the way.

[GeeDee]

because they are fibre?

Except that the service they provide to you is over copper of course. :)

The ASA ruled that it was ok for them to advertise as 'fibre broadband' because the majority of the network is fibre based.

.... So just like BTs network as well then.

All they're doing with their ads at the moment is confusing yet more people with false claims about their service. :)

Idiots.

[AdamR]

bastards

[bvark]

Except that the service they provide to you is over copper of course. :)

The ASA ruled that it was ok for them to advertise as 'fibre broadband' because the majority of the network is fibre based.

.... So just like BTs network as well then.

All they're doing with their ads at the moment is confusing yet more people with false claims about their service. :)

Idiots.

So my BT phone line is 1172m of copper, and the Virgin box I don't use is about 4km of fiber to the cab and then 150m or so of copper coax.

Doesn't seem like an unreasonable claim to me; BT are pushing FTTC with a VDSL2+ loop as "next generation technology" which is somewhat similar

[Lusc]

I heard for lots of money you can request to get fiber up to you house as well?

[AdamR]

for absolute £roflol

[GeeDee]

So my BT phone line is 1172m of copper, and the Virgin box I don't use is about 4km of fiber to the cab and then 150m or so of copper coax.

Doesn't seem like an unreasonable claim to me; BT are pushing FTTC with a VDSL2+ loop as "next generation technology" which is somewhat similar

Still doesn't change the fact that the majority of both networks are fibre based. What if I live next door to a BT exchange - do I have 'fibre broadband' then? No, of course not. Virgin probably should trumpet the fact that their service is capable of delivering the headline speed to all users, rather than DSLs 'up to' - but it's just not 'fibre broadband'.

With the way that pretty much all of the major ISPs advertise these days, it's no wonder that most people don't know what speeds they do, can, should or could get and I don't see it getting any better with the crazy way the ASA has ruled. Not only is 'fibre broadband' ok when that just isn't the service, but apparently it's fine for ISPs to advertise 'Unlimited downloads' with a little asterisk and tiny accompanying text saying 'Fair use policy 3gb' or whatever.

Doesn't make sense to me. :/

[WhiteKnight]

Perhaps ISPs should say "Unlimited Downloads*"

* except nntp, torrents, p2p, ftp, and http traffic.

[Mavykins]

mmm, first thing good thats happening here in a long time :D, wonder if I can convince the other half to turn our spare room into a data centre