topic Re: Openreach copper high speed 300bps in Broadband

Openreach copper high speed 300bps

Ian2240 — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 10:59:01 GMT

Checking Openreach/SKY for fibre up grades

I noticed openreach offer a high speed copper broadband .300bps

I looked on the SKy app and it is not offered offer as a upgrade only the SkY Max router ? The extra speed is about what I need,

so why can't or will not Openreach/SKY offer it ?

Re: Openreach copper high speed 300bps

TimmyBGood — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 11:57:19 GMT

@Ian2240 wrote:

I noticed openreach offer a high speed copper broadband .300bps

Sky does not offer anything other than Ultrafast 1 ('up to' 150Mbs) over G.fast

There's historically also been a 300Mbs version available on the wholesale market, but very few properties could ever receive that because of the very short distance such a speed can travel over copper phone pairs.

Most ISPs have now ended G.fast resale entirely. Only around 10% of UK addresses were ever in areas served by G.fast infrastructure, and Openreach ceased deployment in new regions several years ago as it's fundamentally a dead-end technology being superceded by the national FTTP rollout.

Re: Openreach copper high speed 300bps

Ian2240 — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 13:26:45 GMT

TBG,

Thanks for that, if as you say it's discontinued, it's seems odd Openreach still offer it on their wed page ? It's the only place I looked .

Though I did read Openresch are installing in my Area so I suppose that could be. It. Thanks for your time 😀

Re: Openreach copper high speed 300bps

TimmyBGood — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 13:42:39 GMT

@Ian2240

It's still available as a product to ISPs from BT Wholesale in areas where the technology reached before rollout ceased: most of those ISPs just aren't interested in offering it to potential subscribers any more.

https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2023/10/the-misery-of-diminishing-choice-in-g-fast-uk-broadband-areas.html

Increasingly FTTP overbuild is replacing G.fast anyway.

https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2024/06/openreach-update-on-closure-of-g-fast-cabinets-in-uk-fttp-areas.html