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BT Fibre Pulls Out of Chelsea Over Ugly Equipment Cabinets

Posted by timothy on from the sounds-like-some-elvis-costello-lyrics dept.

judgecorp writes "The up-market London borough of Kensington and Chelsea has lost its chance for BT fast fibre. After residents objected to the ugly fibre cabinets, and the council repeatedly refused permission to install them in historic sites, BT has said the borough will not get its fast BT Infinity product at all. The borough says it doesn't need BT, as Richard Branson's Virgin Media has got it more or less covered."

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  1. Re:Aesthetics by MrNaz · · Score: 5, Informative

    If you are unable to see that aesthetics actually has functional value, then I'm surprised you're actually capable of the emotion of "sadness".

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    I hate printers.
  2. Re:Agreed by ShakingSpirit · · Score: 5, Informative

    They look pretty similar to the Virgin boxes that the residents seem to be fine about. Maybe a bit taller.

    BT Infinity is made of fail anyway. It's expensive, slow and capped to hell. Rather than do real fibre to the premises they decided to roll out last century's technology.

    BT Infinity is great, and pretty much the best choice for internet access in the UK, just as long as you don't get it from BT... Plenty of other providers which resell the same FTTC service but without the crappy throttling/shaping. I'm with Zen and get 60down/20up solidly, couldn't be happier to be honest.