Sky will be looking to run trials of fibre-optic broadband

[Mark O]

well sounds exciting, but my exchange is not on the list not even any exchange from nearby cities derby and nottingham.....so I guess it will be years before this comes my way

Same here, there is an exchange listed for where I'm from but its not mine

[Undecided Adrian]

on the BT infinity site they now have a map of the UK where you can check which exchanges are being done and you can suddenly see that London, Kent, Surrey and Berkshire are getting all the love and everywhere else are getting limited rollouts in the next year.

I am seriously surprised that Stevenage is even on the list for 2011 as we only got LLU providers in 2007 well behind everybody else.

[gareth86]

HERNE BAY end of December 2010

Lame!

http://www.trefor.net/wp-content/upl.../exchanges.htm

And Whitstable isn't even on the March 2011 one

[ant project]

been on bt infinity site said my exchange enabled at end of july ,estimated my download speed at 18.8mb and upload speed at 7.7 mb for unlimited option price at around 38 pound month ,would be really intrested in how sky would price there fiber optic broadband with there line rental cheaper then bts hopefully be a more competive price as i have not made my mind who to go with

[Undecided Adrian]

how they pricing 38 pound a month where the website says 25 or are you including line rental as well?

[ant project]

37 pound sorry yeah that includes line rental....

[deadman1984]

well thats charming my exchange isnt listed friggin bt in that list there wonder how much it would cost to get my area done huh alot i bet

[Mystic Eddy]

well thats charming my exchange isnt listed friggin bt in that list there wonder how much it would cost to get my area done huh alot i bet

It will all depend on how close you are to a node to connect to, and relative head end construction costs at the exchange, and potential uptake of the services. Not to mention the (estimated) £15k cost to install a new shiny cabinet!

[Undecided Adrian]

You look on the new map they have London, Kent, Surrey and Berkshire are getting all the love for the forseeable future with a handful of exchanges around the rest of the country.

So they look like they are targetting exchanges to get customers quickly, especially as they have been playing catchup on ADSL2+.

[Stumpy]

I have been speaking to a BT engineer today, who told me that those lists of the fibre optic roll-out simply show the dates that BT "estimates" they may be looking at the exchanges - no guarantee they will start installing it then. And according to him, the fibre optics will still not come to your door, just to a nearby junction box - copper will still be used for the last part of the route.