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**discountviagraman** · 08-02-2010, 03:42 AM

If they weren't using fibre optics they wouldn't be allowed to advertise their service as using such. AFAIK they use fibre optics up to the box in the street, but copper cable from the box to your house.

True, what I meant was that they have just started rolling it out in (very) select areas, it's not what their main service is built on, but it allows them to advertise it. But I could be wrong, it certainly wouldn't be too far-fetched for their infrastructure to be based on Fibre and copper to the home. All I was really pointing out was that us poor folk in the UK don't actually have fibre internet in the home yet, we're still very much all copper.

08-02-2010, 03:42 AM	#17
discountviagraman Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 457 Senior Member	If they weren't using fibre optics they wouldn't be allowed to advertise their service as using such. AFAIK they use fibre optics up to the box in the street, but copper cable from the box to your house. True, what I meant was that they have just started rolling it out in (very) select areas, it's not what their main service is built on, but it allows them to advertise it. But I could be wrong, it certainly wouldn't be too far-fetched for their infrastructure to be based on Fibre and copper to the home. All I was really pointing out was that us poor folk in the UK don't actually have fibre internet in the home yet, we're still very much all copper.
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