Installations of fibre to the premises has started in Jersey, with the first 24 homes connected and
more being added daily now. The trial is running in the La Rocque, Fauvic and
La Moye areas of the island, and will once launched as a full service serve
some 42,000 homes and businesses connected to a full fibre network.
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The level of demand for the service can be judged by the fact that some 350
applications had been received for the three month trial within the first 48 hours. Over the next
few weeks another 500 households should get connected to the service.
“It makes a considerable difference when streaming TV programs over the
internet, as the pictures come up immediately, there is no need to wait while
the ‘buffering’ takes place. I am currently getting a download speed of ’50Mb’
and an upload speed of ’40Mb’, which makes it so much easier to work with
pictures, or to use more complex websites.”Adrian Renouf, freelance IT professional living in St Brelade
The trial will give customers at least a doubling of their speed, with some
homes being provisioned with a full Gigabit service. The roll-out in Jersey is
unusual in that the copper local loop is being removed as they pass properties,
with telephone and broadband delivered solely via fibre.
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This is what can happen when JT is the sole supplier?
Have they got different service obligations for telephony availability than here on the mainland?
@Somerset, Indeed, no wholesale.. no worries
An argument certainly could be had that this was possible only because of JT being the infrastructure owner and sole ISP on the network. Sure, lots of ISPs has pushed the price down in the UK but we are now in a situation where by a large part of the UK are unlikely to see any significant improvement even with BDUK funding because the revenues simply are not there.
http://www.thinkbroadband.com/news/i/4925.html
“There are some conditions that come with the government investment, …, ensuring access to the fibre network is available on a fair, equal and auditable basis.”
@Andrew: They say that about Hull too 🙂
Reduce the return from wholesale, and investment in the new network might have been less likely.
Also how much competition can a fairly small population support?
Competition is sometimes over rated, in the main it drives prices down, but only occassionally drives forward the QoS.
Prices in Jersey are something else… e.g. £27 for an 8Mbps connection
http://www.newtelsolutions.com/
@themanstan – Actually, I’d say for a small island, thus with a much smaller economy of scale the prices are reasonable. Plus it is genuinely unlimited.
When you have a smaller userbase you probably also need provision proportionally more bandwidth per user as it’d be much more plausible for a large proportion of your user-base to start using their connections simultenously.
I’m not saying the unreasonable for the location. Just it provides figures that are realistic for provisions to small isolated communities.
Compared to the incumbent JT, it is far more attractive as JT has 40GB pm limitations…