@Baldrick1 wrote:
@ad47uk wrote:
It is the hassle I don't want, the drilling, more sockets being used and more cables. I want to try and tidy up the cables I have got.
You say probably roughly the same, so I will still be paying more for something I don't need.
Things move on and land based communications are slowly moving from the late 19th/early 20th century into the 21st. That will not stop. The plan is that in the next few years your telephone connection will be transferred from the old PSTN service to the Internet by Openreach regardless of whether you have a copper or fibre connection.
I don’t know if TT is ‘forcing’ customers to move to FTTP or you are confused and what they are doing is encouraging new customers to move to the Internet based telephone service, I believe that this is the the Sky default configuration.
I would have thought that having the old copper based cabling removed and a new fibre connection, possibly brought in to your property at a more convenient location would be a good opportunity to tidy up your internal wiring.
I don’t understand your comment that by paying about the same for what you have now is a disadvantage. Does this mean that you currently need to take a slower service?
I know things move on, but the change to fibre is more about openreach saving money.
Talk Talk as someone have posted is sending out letters to their customers where FTTP is available, some of these letters are telling the customers they are being moved to fibre. I'm just wondering if plusnet is looking at the same idea, at the moment we don't have fibre here, but I have seen Openreach here as well as zzoomm and openreach seems to be doing something to the poles, and some of them in the next street now have loops of fibre hanging down. So i presume they are doing their network at the same time as zzoomm. typical, get none and then get two fibre networks at the same time.
openreach puts the fibre down the same way as the copper as far as i know, so surly ot will follow the same route? The only advantage is that I would be able to have a longer Ethernet cable from the ONT and have the router where I like.
As for price, I pay £24 a month for around 36Mb/s, i can't get any faster, even if I wanted to, for me that is fine, what I don't want to do is pay more for a faster speed I don't require.
All I wanted to know is will plusnet try to force people onto fibre? I have 12 months left on my contract, I will no doubt renew it at the end of the contract as long as Plusnet leave me alone.
