BT rollout VoIP

I sat in on a BT presentation about the future of telecoms in the UK.
Within the next 10 years BT will have pulled the plug on PSTN. All phone
users will be connected via VoIP. Every green street cabinet in the UK will
be fed by fibre with copper pairs continuing to be fed to premises.
Standard Broadband will jump from 512k to 3 Meg.



Three exchanges will go live in 2005, Bradwell Abbey in Milton Keynes,
Martisham Heath and one other that I have already forgotten. By 2008 around
half the UK will be on VoIP. Interesting times ahead.

informer wrote:
> I sat in on a BT presentation about the future of telecoms in the UK.
> Within the next 10 years BT will have pulled the plug on PSTN. All phone
> users will be connected via VoIP. Every green street cabinet in the UK will
> be fed by fibre with copper pairs continuing to be fed to premises.
> Standard Broadband will jump from 512k to 3 Meg.
>
>
>
> Three exchanges will go live in 2005, Bradwell Abbey in Milton Keynes,
> Martisham Heath and one other that I have already forgotten. By 2008 around
> half the UK will be on VoIP. Interesting times ahead.
>
>

I already know this. Been mentioned in the past

On Fri, 17 Dec 2004, informer wrote:

> I sat in on a BT presentation about the future of telecoms in the UK.
> Within the next 10 years BT will have pulled the plug on PSTN.

Thanks for the heads-up, but if it takes them 10 years, then it's hard
to believe they'll still be in business by then.

Around 10 years ago, we were slowly replacing thinnet (10-base-2)
daisychained ethernets with Cat.3-ish cabling and 10Mbit TP hubs, and
those things cost a small fortune. I forget what wide-area access
speed we had, but it was always clogged. Now you can buy gigabit
interfaces for pocket-money, and our wide area access is due (AIUI) to
be upgraded from 2.5G to 10G. Even a modest attempt to extrapolate
another 10 years leaves one wondering how it'll turn out.

If only we'll have something worthwhile to say to each other, over
that monster information highway ;-)

seasons greetings, all

sean wrote:
> informer wrote:
>> I sat in on a BT presentation about the future of telecoms in the UK.
>> Within the next 10 years BT will have pulled the plug on PSTN. All
>> phone users will be connected via VoIP. Every green street cabinet
>> in the UK will be fed by fibre with copper pairs continuing to be
>> fed to premises. Standard Broadband will jump from 512k to 3 Meg.
>>
>>
>>
>> Three exchanges will go live in 2005, Bradwell Abbey in Milton
>> Keynes, Martisham Heath and one other that I have already forgotten.
>> By 2008 around half the UK will be on VoIP. Interesting times ahead.
>>
>>
>
> I already know this. Been mentioned in the past

& oft repeated many many times & yet board members still stand up & state
emphatically that the future is in copper (I can't help but wonder about all
the aluminium & lead cables which are also out there, why are they always
forgotten???)

On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 22:12:26 -0000, "kraftee" <kraftee@spamoff&
die.com> wrote:

>sean wrote:
>> informer wrote:
>>> I sat in on a BT presentation about the future of telecoms in the UK.
>>> Within the next 10 years BT will have pulled the plug on PSTN. All
>>> phone users will be connected via VoIP. Every green street cabinet
>>> in the UK will be fed by fibre with copper pairs continuing to be
>>> fed to premises. Standard Broadband will jump from 512k to 3 Meg.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Three exchanges will go live in 2005, Bradwell Abbey in Milton
>>> Keynes, Martisham Heath and one other that I have already forgotten.
>>> By 2008 around half the UK will be on VoIP. Interesting times ahead.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> I already know this. Been mentioned in the past
>
>& oft repeated many many times & yet board members still stand up & state
>emphatically that the future is in copper (I can't help but wonder about all
>the aluminium & lead cables which are also out there, why are they always
>forgotten???)
>
Aren't you mixing up lead and aliminium cables? Aluminium is used as
a conductor but lead is used only as sheathing (on cables that usually
have copper conductors)


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"Peter" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>>
> Aren't you mixing up lead and aliminium cables? Aluminium is used as
> a conductor but lead is used only as sheathing (on cables that usually
> have copper conductors)
>
>
> --
Point taken, Peter...but when BT engineers talk shop about lead/aluminium
they know they are referring to the sheath/conductor respectively ..lead
cables may have copper conductors, but these are OLD paper insulated
cables - a nightmare to work with/fault, especially when wet...

Ali

Alan J. Flavell wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Dec 2004, informer wrote:
>
>> I sat in on a BT presentation about the future of telecoms in the
>> UK. Within the next 10 years BT will have pulled the plug on PSTN.
>
> Thanks for the heads-up, but if it takes them 10 years, then it's
> hard to believe they'll still be in business by then.
>
> Around 10 years ago, we were slowly replacing thinnet (10-base-2)
> daisychained ethernets with Cat.3-ish cabling and 10Mbit TP hubs,
> and those things cost a small fortune. I forget what wide-area
> access speed we had, but it was always clogged. Now you can buy
> gigabit interfaces for pocket-money, and our wide area access is
> due (AIUI) to be upgraded from 2.5G to 10G. Even a modest attempt
> to extrapolate another 10 years leaves one wondering how it'll turn
> out.
>
> If only we'll have something worthwhile to say to each other, over
> that monster information highway ;-)
>
> seasons greetings, all

And I wonder if they'll still try and charge ridiculous line rental and
levy minimum call charges..? When it's possible to send megabytes of data
over broadband connections, charging for a piddling voice stream is
stupid.

Ivor

On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 21:31:58 +0000 (UTC), "informer"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>I sat in on a BT presentation about the future of telecoms in the UK.
>Within the next 10 years BT will have pulled the plug on PSTN. All phone
>users will be connected via VoIP. Every green street cabinet in the UK will
>be fed by fibre with copper pairs continuing to be fed to premises.

a) Fibre + copper to premises should give far more than a few Mbps b/w
- if done correctly.

b) 99% of the "green cabinets" 'round here are Teleshite, which are
already at 4Mbps for the price (or lower) that you can get 2Mbps DSL
at And I will not pay Teleshite any more money after they illegally
breached their contract when I moved house by one street.

c) Gigabit ethernet fibre to the doorstep would be nice ;-)

>Standard Broadband will jump from 512k to 3 Meg.

Until upload speeds get above 256Kbps, 3Mbps is not that much more
worthwhile - unless you are a serial downloader - which I am ;-)

>Three exchanges will go live in 2005, Bradwell Abbey in Milton Keynes,
>Martisham Heath
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ - I wish I worked for BT ;-)

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On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 21:31:58 +0000 (UTC), informer
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> I sat in on a BT presentation about the future of telecoms in the UK.
> Within the next 10 years BT will have pulled the plug on PSTN. All phone
> users will be connected via VoIP. Every green street cabinet in the UK will
> be fed by fibre with copper pairs continuing to be fed to premises.
> Standard Broadband will jump from 512k to 3 Meg.

Pathetic. If "Standard Broadband" in the UK is only 3Mbps at the end
of 2014, then we will be way, way, way behind the rest of the
"developed" world.

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"Mike Pellatt" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
"Pathetic. If "Standard Broadband" in the UK is only 3Mbps at the end of
2014, then we will be way, way, way behind the rest of the "developed"
world."

I doubt that BT will achieve this anyway, but, I wonder what effect the
digital revolution is having on peoples health. You see people sat day and
night in front of screens, obsessed, burning a calorie a day, doubling in
body mass, losing all social skills and becoming digital recluses....






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