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RSS fttcBT offers free fibre to Glasgow businesses
News BT business customers in the Glasgow Halfway exchange area are being offered the chance to trial fibre to the cabinet (FTTC) broadband, the telco said yesterday. Fibre broadband comes in two flavours:... [05 Nov 2009]
BT's home fibre tests: Coming in London and Milton Keynes
News As well as rolling out FTTH, where fibre optic cable is laid all the way to a user's premises, BT is deploying fibre-to-the-cabinet (FTTC), where cabling only reaches to the street cabinet. While the latter is a cheaper... [02 Oct 2009]
Photos: BT previews superfast fibre broadband... in Muswell Hill
Photo BT has opened a new high street shop to promote fibre broadband in London's Muswell Hill - the location for one of its two fibre to the cabinet (FTTC) pilots, along with Whitchurch in South Wales. Residents of London's... [17 Sep 2009]
BT superfast fibre broadband destined for London brownfield pilot
News BT's fibre rollout will therefore mostly entail fibre-to-the-cabinet (FTTC), where fibre optic connectivity is extended as far as the street cabinet, and the connections between the cabinet and buildings remains... [07 Aug 2009]
Cheat Sheet: BT's £1.5bn fibre plans
Cheat Sheet The downlink speed a user will actually get will depend on whether BT lays fibre to the cabinet (FTTC), where fibre only goes as far as the street cabinet, or fibre to the premises (FTTP), where it goes all the way to... [14 Jul 2009]
Is BT's super-fast broadband coming to your neighbourhood?
News The less costly FTTC could deliver downstream speeds of up to 40Mbps and an uplink of between 5Mbps and 10Mbps. Almost 70 exchanges have been named to receive fibre broadband, using a mixture of fibre-to-the-premises... [09 Jul 2009]
BT kicks off London fibre pilot
News The pilot follows an internal Openreach trial in Ipswich of fibre-to-the-cabinet (FTTC) technology, which achieves speeds of up to 40Mbps. FTTC involves installing fibre up to a cabinet in a street, and... [06 Jul 2009]
50p broadband tax 'will leave 20 pc of UK without fibre'
News David Campbell, BT Openreach's MD of next-generation access, added that the telco will deploy a mixture of fibre to the premises (FTTP) and fibre to the cabinet (FTTC) for next-generation access - with P or C being... [02 Jul 2009]
BT to expand 2010 fibre rollout
News Last year BT announced it would spend £1.5bn by 2012 to fund a fibre to the cabinet (FTTC) rollout aimed at hooking up 40 per cent of UK homes and businesses, some 10 million premises. Earlier this year the telco named... [15 May 2009]
BT reveals which towns will get fibre first
News BT has revealed the first exchanges that will get fibre to the cabinet (FTTC), starting from next year. The telco's local access division Openreach will deploy FTTC at 29 exchanges across the UK from... [23 Mar 2009]
Dear Gordon, here's how to spend that £17bn
News Alternatively, the government could go for the budget FTTC option and then spend extra on next-gen wireless technologies to cover the last mile. Prime Minister Gordon Brown has earmarked £18bn for investment to help UK... [06 Jan 2009]
PM's 100,000 job plan to mean broadband spending spree?
News Any government fibre plans are likely to focus on fibre-to-the-cabinet (FTTC) rather than fibre-to-the-home (FTTH), due to the costs involved: a recent report by the Broadband Stakeholder Group priced... [05 Jan 2009]
BT to plug fibre in London, Wales
News A recent Broadband Stakeholder Group report into the cost of rolling out fibre in Blighty estimates a full fibre to the home rollout would cost almost £29bn, while a FTTC deployment would have a price tag of just over £5bn. [14 Oct 2008]
Broadband Britain: UK needs wireless patchwork
News Much of the debate surrounding the incentives for getting operators to roll out NGA has focused on fibre to the home (FTTH) or fibre to the street cabinet (FTTC). Friday's report, entitled The next phase of broadband UK:... [12 Sep 2008]
Inbox: Antique computing, Segway protest and ID cards
Comment The cost of building a full end-to-end fibre network across the UK may create a compelling case for getting on with rolling out fibre to the cabinet (FTTC) in the next few years instead. The weekly Inbox column collects... [11 Sep 2008]
