oo Bt are getting clever

[Collino]

BBC Tech News

Looks like BT have been feeling like they need a change. Looks like it will be for the best.

Only thing worries me, is hwo secure will it be?

 

[Cyfr]

"Despite speculation about the benefits of a ubiquitous fibre network, BT has no plans to lay it throughout the UK, concentrating instead on areas where new houses are being built."

*****.

 

[Collino]

bit shit really..

might have to move m8

 

[Whipped]

Yeah, security would be a big problem I reckon. Although the old PSTN switches were also suseptible to hacking, you needed a lot more information and more balls to do that.

With an IP phone network you'd just need your PC and some handy hacking software.

I bet the script kiddies are jizzing themsleves!

 

[Whipped]

bit shit really..

might have to move m8

Around 1,500 customers in Suffolk, Milton Keynes and Docklands will be selected to take part in the fibre trial which will be up and running in the autumn.

Would you really want to move to MK to get faster speeds though

All those roundabouts, I'd get dizzy

 

[Collino]

lol..

seeing as i neither own a house or are going to own one for the next 5-10 years i doubt i will lol..

heh

but sitll MK is mank... with those H and V roads...

Will BT ever do something right?

 

[Jupitus]

MK will have been picked because they have a whole association of anal turd heads living their who made a committee up to harrass BT because they have lots of aluminium lines laid and cant get adsl.

 

[KevinUK]

Yay for me! I live in MK

The roundabouts are great, on quiet days they barely slow down your journey, just wizz round them.

 

[Jupitus]

oops... except KevinUK, of course!!!

 

[Ch3tan]

Yeah MK is great...roundabouts and a grid system, oh and dont forget the MK Dons! What a fantastic place, I wish I lived there.

 

[Collino]

sarcasm detected.....?

 

[Lester]

MK will have been picked because they have a whole association of anal turd heads living their who made a committee up to harrass BT because they have lots of aluminium lines laid and cant get adsl.

They picked MK as a PR exercise. They are bidding to win a contract for a Millenuim community project - basically a whole village that will be connected with fibre, VOIP, IPCCTV, intranet to schools and doctors, libraries, SKY down the fibre etc. The project is in MK.

The next "big thing" will be LLU. If the right operator unbundles your exchange you could obtain up to 20Mb to your house over existing copper for probably around 1-2 grand a year.