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<blockquote data-quote="Adam792" data-source="post: 1017367" data-attributes="member: 330868"><p>In general, the state of FTTP in this country is really lagging behind!</p><p></p><p>In the big cities, a company called Hyperoptic are wiring up apartment blocks with FTTP. I have a friend who lives in central Bristol and gets 1Gbps (up and down) with them!</p><p></p><p>Can only dream of getting those speeds here! Worcester never got cabled (Birmingham cable ran out of money during their expansion southwards) so our only option is BT.</p><p></p><p>When I went to Portugal last year, it was obvious that their FTTP rollout is way beyond ours. Something like 60%+ of the country has it available, with a headline 1Gbps speed. The providers also provide a cable TV service over the fibre (RF overlay) - the termination box in your home has an aerial connector to feed into your internal wiring. The hotel we stayed in had MEO fibre which has around 70 Free to air channels available in DVB-T so they can be tuned in on any modern TV's tuner. The same 70 channels are also simulcast as analogue cable. I thought it was pretty bizarre for an analogue cable service to be provided over a state of the art fibre internet connection!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Adam792, post: 1017367, member: 330868"] In general, the state of FTTP in this country is really lagging behind! In the big cities, a company called Hyperoptic are wiring up apartment blocks with FTTP. I have a friend who lives in central Bristol and gets 1Gbps (up and down) with them! Can only dream of getting those speeds here! Worcester never got cabled (Birmingham cable ran out of money during their expansion southwards) so our only option is BT. When I went to Portugal last year, it was obvious that their FTTP rollout is way beyond ours. Something like 60%+ of the country has it available, with a headline 1Gbps speed. The providers also provide a cable TV service over the fibre (RF overlay) - the termination box in your home has an aerial connector to feed into your internal wiring. The hotel we stayed in had MEO fibre which has around 70 Free to air channels available in DVB-T so they can be tuned in on any modern TV's tuner. The same 70 channels are also simulcast as analogue cable. I thought it was pretty bizarre for an analogue cable service to be provided over a state of the art fibre internet connection! [/QUOTE]
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