...which is shown above at 328 Muswell Hill Broadway - in a former travel agent's shop.
According to the BT spokesman, the pricing for the forthcoming commercial fibre product will be announced at the end of the pilot, in January.
He said the telco is also in the process of working out the details of what specific terms and conditions customers can expect.
Asked about traffic shaping, the spokesman added that at this point it has not been decided whether users of BT's fibre might have their bandwidth throttled in certain situations or not.
"Part of this trial is to work out how customers use it," he said.
Photo credit: Natasha Lomas/silicon.com
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1. Richard Davies
They mention traffic shaping; I also recall them being affiliated with Phorm.
Why must ISP's like BT want to mess around and control a users connection like this?
If you pay for a connection and a certain amount of bandwidth per month then it should come free from traffic shaping and adverts etc. As long as a user isn't accessing illegal sites (most ISP's blacklist these anyway) then they should be left alone.
I would like to know in what way they will shape traffic.
I think that ISP's should be forced to disclose how and when they shape 'users' traffic.
2. karen challinor
and what is the ratio of the sum of the bandwidths of the fibres to the cabinet to the sum of the bandwidths of the connections between the exchanges ?
3. drew stephenson
As the comments from Richard and Karen illustrate, the biggest problem the telco's will have now is that no-one actually trusts their figures enough to invest. Until they actually start to advertise some genuine figures (including the realistic effects of traffic-shaping and contention) or provide a guaranteed minimum level of connection that they're going to have a job persuading people to sign up.
It's one thing to be involved in the trial when there's a high level of focus and back up, but what's it like in the real world?
4. Nick Boyd
Lord how fed up I get, with hearing about all the benefits that London businesses (and homes) will have or has. This initiative will doubtless roll out, one assumes to, Brum, Liverpool, Manchester and so on.
The rest of us poor saps, struggling to run businesses in the country will just have to get by on 2mbps - on a clear day and when the string is taut between the two cans.
The fact that I live three miles from Britain's largest Defence Academy - which has its own internal high speed broadband and satellite service; or that I peer at five huge wind turbines; or the fact that it is seven miles to the nearest supermarket ( as opposed to local Co-Op), are all just indications of how muddled everyone is about the role of the rural communities in modern Britain.
Urban-focused Government will take what it needs in terms of space - but provides an infrastructure comparable with that of, say, Mykonos - but without the sun!
Ludicrous
5. Don Tregartha
2Mb?
I dream of 2Mb....
As always the superfast stuff gets implemented where there's plenty of infrastructure already.
Why? because there's competition.
Out here in the sticks we don't even get 500k and that's when its not out of action due to theft of the multicore trunk from the exchange, which happened twice in 4 weeks.
Traffic shaping!
Ha ha ha