More Money & New Technology
Sep 14, 2015An extra £3.9m has been found to push fibre out futher into rural areas of Cumbria. This has been found from monies saved by not further improving BT’s copper network (a BDUK national decision) and by BT bringing forward money because of good take up of SFBB in Cumbria. Let’s hope we can get a share of this…….
New technology (going by the name of G.Fast) is currently being trialled nationally which can be expected to make SFBB more cost effective to bring to remote areas. This technology gives much higher speeds from the fibre enabled cabinet (120Mb/s instead of current 80 Mb/s) and so gives a greater range from the cabinet before the signal degrades to less than SFBB.