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Rival slams BT's "laughable" fibre proposition
« on: August 19, 2010, 15:17 »
The boss of a rival fibre provider has slammed BT over its the definition and delivery of its high-speed broadband.

Piers Daniell, managing director of Fluidata, accused the telco of deliberately capping its services and muddying the water with vague advertising.

He said BT's fibre options – both the fibre to the cabinet (FTTC) service currently being rolled out and the fibre to the home (FTTH) expected to launch next year – are a laughing stock among business fibre providers.

Daniell believes that neither BT nor Virgin should be calling their services fibre, because both rely on older technologies to deliver from the cabinet to the end user.

“We tend to look at this from the business side of the market and we are laughing at them, because they keep calling it fibre, but how it's actually delivered has not changed,” he told PC Pro.

Read more: http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/broadband/360433/rival-slams-bts-laughable-fibre-proposition
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Re: Rival slams BT's "laughable" fibre proposition
« Reply #1 on: August 19, 2010, 15:30 »
We'd laugh, but it's not funny for us. :(
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Re: Rival slams BT's "laughable" fibre proposition
« Reply #2 on: August 19, 2010, 15:38 »
Where are the Victorians when we need them?   :laugh:

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Re: Rival slams BT's "laughable" fibre proposition
« Reply #3 on: August 19, 2010, 15:39 »
Dead?  :o:
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Re: Rival slams BT's "laughable" fibre proposition
« Reply #4 on: August 19, 2010, 16:21 »
Running BT?
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Re: Rival slams BT's "laughable" fibre proposition
« Reply #5 on: August 19, 2010, 16:22 »
A distinct possibility. ;D
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Re: Rival slams BT's "laughable" fibre proposition
« Reply #6 on: August 19, 2010, 16:32 »
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