Re: Tell BT and EE
BT is due to do something similar later this year: home.bt.com/news/bt-life/bt-offers-breakthrough-service-to-divert-huge-numbers-of-nuisance-calls-11364039280071
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Adam,
You have spouted so many ill informed facts that it totally drowns out any legimate argument you may have.
For instance:
1. FTTrN / FTTdP has been deployed by Openreach in some places and more will come.
2. Virtually all the reputable studies show that the bandwidth needs of the UK population - both sme business or residential - will be well under a 100mb for years to come.
3. g.fast is already capable of a lot more than 330mb and at longer distances than 250m. It will get both faster and have a even longer reach as the technology develops - perhaps a gb or more - and that's without bonding. With bonding, the speeds are even faster.
4. There are already several tweaks to g.fast to make it better and a successor technology on the drawing board (xg.fast). They have already got 4/5gb over copper in labs.
If you reflect these rather basic errors/issues perhaps others would take your points more seriously.
Even where firms offer FTTP or ultra fast speeds now, most users only sign up to the slowest packages.
You ask 'Why no Universal Service Obligation recommendation?'
That's because its not Ofcom's job - the Government have already decided on a new 10MB USO and plan to consult on it later this year..
Why the consultation? Well as the other replies to your post point out - someone has to a) pay for it and b) implement it - the question is who or what combination of parties..