alan Wrote:
21CN project was around long before any commitment to a 10Mbps service commitment, indeed it was conceived before WBC which came about in part to open up access to the OpenReach network.
I know that, but it is utterly irrelevant what the origins of the 21CN project is to the discussion at hand, which is Openreach's commitment to upgrade
ALL exchanges to support ADSL2+ to help meet the 10Mbps universal commitment.
So unless you have evidence to the contrary that where necessary Openreach will be increasing backhaul all your protestations are meaningless.
There is a 10Mbps service commitment but it does not follow that it will be provided by ADSL in all cases and the Scottish Government through HIE is pushing for significantly faster speeds.
Except BT/Openreach's commitment earlier this year to upgrade
ALL exchanges to ADSL2+ to meet the UK 10Mbps service obligation. What the HIE or Scottish Government want is irrelevant in that regard. Though if you ask me I would be happy to pay the taxes to just junk the Kinghouse exchange and do it all FTTP from somewhere else. Anything that is not fibre is an interim solution and the long we take to get to fibre the more it will cost in real terms in the end.
At present BT is not even able to provide adequate voice services from the Kingshouse Exchange with ongoing issues in Glen Etive and indeed the audio quality on the lines to the Ski Area are poor despite the relatively short distance being involved - they can't sustain the full 512kb/s ADSL rate provided by the DSLAM either.
I understand the situation at the moment. That however is completely irrelevant to the announcement by BT/Openreach in January.
The distances involved from that exchange are well beyond the current reach of ADSL2+ at 10Mbps, only The Ski Area, a few properties at the Kingshouse would benefit, the majority of connected properties would not and the total backhaul to the exchange doesn't come to 10Mbps so it would be pointless as things stand. Fibre to the Cabinet has no benefit because properties served are too spatially dispersed.
There are only 26 lines on the exchange to being with.
Thus at present the exchange remains under review with no upgrade path agreed. It is classed as not commercially viable to upgrade services there by BT and as ADSL2 or FTTC would be useless for providing a universal service of 10Mbit/s to all customers connected it is possible though not definite that a solution will not involve the exchange at all.
Almost nothing at the Kinghouse exchange will ever be commercially viable, that that is a facetious argument, and as we are talking about the USO irrelevant.