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BT Fibre Pulls Out of Chelsea Over Ugly Equipment Cabinets
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."
Perhaps if they're painted like a police box, nobody will even notice they're present?
I only post comments when someone on the internet is wrong.
This type of Infrastructure stays around for 50 years on average, and there's no need to accept such crappie equipment strewn all over the landscape because once in, you are stuck, they will never improve or replace them.
If you don't force them to do it right the first time, it will look like hell forever.
I have a ground mounted transformer, a telephone cabinet , a cable company cabinet all sitting in my front yard, all because the subdivision builder granted them easements. The service companies bitch where I shroud them with Rhodies.
Sig Battery depleted. Reverting to safe mode.
If they made them to look like blue police call boxes people would be fighting over having one on their street.
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".
I hate printers.
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.
The borough says it doesn't need BT, as Richard Branson's Virgin Media has got it more or less covered.
Yeah, and who needs competition, we all know monopolies are the best way to ensure low prices and good services, am I right?
I understand that the boxes may be ugly, but that statement is utterly moronic.
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