The FTTH Council Europe's latest “panorama” report reveals that, despite the fact that the government has announced plans to have the “best superfast broadband network in Europe by 2015”, the UK is clearly lagging and has no large-scale FTTH deployment plans.

Having previously announced an ambitious FTTH coverage objective in 2011 – 2.5m homes passed by the end of 2012 – the UK incumbent BT has changed its strategy, deciding to focus on upgrading its copper network to offer fibre-to-the-cabinet (FTTC) instead… Europe as a whole is slightly behind the rest of the world in deploying FTTH, with 8.7% of homes expected to be connected by the end of 2016 compared to 10.5% globally.]]> fibre ftth broadband https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:guardiantech/b:0da89e1708d5/ 2011-11-04T22:19:30+00:00 http://pipelinepub.com/pipelinednn/static/NewsArticle.aspx?ItemID=611 guardiantech digitalbritain FTTH https://pinboard.in/u:guardiantech/b:6928b92e98f3/ 2011-09-25T20:37:37+00:00 http://5tth.blogspot.com/2011/09/lies-and-more-lies-otu-report-p-95-6.html guardiantech "Hardly surprising when on p.95-6 comes an outright lie about broadband in Britain which can only have skewed all the results for the UK. Whoever is responsible for feeding such untruths to OECD (from whom the data appears to have been supplied to ITU) deserves never ending sleepless nights and karmic payback on a level approaching bankers' bonuses.
"'While in 2010, Germany and UK had similar fixed-broadband penetration rates, 59 per cent of the United Kingdom's were above 10Mbit/s, compared with only 30% per cent in Germany. Indeed, in the United Kingdom, 99% of all subscriptions are above 2Mbps'".

When you think about it, that doesn't sound likely.]]> charlesarthur broadband ftth https://pinboard.in/u:guardiantech/b:5e905303650f/