BT Promises 300Mbps FTTP By 2012

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday October 5, 2011 @04:40PM from the speeding-up dept.

twoheadedboy writes "UK service provider BT has launched its Fibre to the Premises (FTTP) product, pledging it will offer downstream speeds of 300Mbps by spring next year. At present, the service can hit 110Mbps downstream speeds and will be available in just six locations from the end of October. More locations will be added and speeds will rise, however, with a 1Gbps service currently being trialled in Kesgrave, Suffolk. There may be continuing disputes over BT Openreach's pricing of fibre products, given the recent industry in-fighting. Nevertheless, 300Mbps fibre will provide some pretty speedy downloads for end users."

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Re:Who cares? by Anonymous Coward · 2011-10-05 17:55 · Score: 0, Flamebait

> So you can now hit your bandwidth cap faster than ever?
Well of course, all transmission systems have to have a bandwidth "cap" otherwise their frequencies would be all over the spectrum.
Oh I see, you're mis-using an engineering term you don't understand. You might as well have said "hit your LCD cap" for all the sense you made.