tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-694598996257651817.post1446372912958223473..comments2023-10-21T16:47:21.705+01:00Comments on Fibre to the home UK - Fibrevolution: Samknows/Ofcom speed survey results fail to show true picture of rural plightUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-694598996257651817.post-17037479692596921292009-07-28T17:44:53.926+01:002009-07-28T17:44:53.926+01:00"In reality there are no deeply rural exchang..."<i>In reality there are no deeply rural exchanges in this position, perhaps due to potential unbundlers realising that the sorry state of rural copper wire infrastructure doesn't justify their investment?</i>"<br /><br />lack of subscribers to justify the cost. Getting some small percentage of users on a 400 line exchange is of no economic interest to anyone, not to mention the extra costs of getting to it.PhilThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05473047092857031739noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-694598996257651817.post-34490442031487118642009-07-28T17:13:52.183+01:002009-07-28T17:13:52.183+01:00Absolutely right on target!
The survey results ar...Absolutely right on target!<br /><br />The survey results are frankly meaningless based on such a small sample size and it is to be expected that people requesting the monitoring routers are a self-selecting group of technically more aware users, able to tweak their settings to get better performance than most non-technical subscribers would be able to achieve.<br /><br />BT knows exactly how crap ADSL broadband is in rural areas.<br /><br />How?<br /><br />Simple - the other end of each and every home and business ADSL modem/router is connected to a port on a DSLAM at the local exchange, over which BT has full automated data collection capability.<br /><br />Unless, of course, the exchange has been LLU (Local Loop Unbundled) <br /><br />In reality there are no deeply rural exchanges in this position, perhaps due to potential unbundlers realising that the sorry state of rural copper wire infrastructure doesn't justify their investment?<br /><br />So come on OFCOM - reject this spurious "Commercially Confidential" bleating, demand the raw DLSAM stats from BT, anonymise the data and publish on the basis of partial postcodes the sorry reality of rural broadband Britain.GuyJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16206761436580434213noreply@blogger.com