Digital Region Has Been Sold To Geo Networks

[WillPS]

(17-07-2014 11:51 AM)KarlAustin Wrote:  *cough*

Fibre in residential areas still has value, 5G and beyond will use higher frequencies which require more masts because propagation is poor and contention will be worse also requiring more masts.

Yepp; just a tragedy that cable built to serve the 100,000s of homes will remain dark now probably for the best part of a decade.

[Zytron]

Wonder how much a leased line would be from them. Can't be that much since the fibre's already there ...

[KarlAustin]

Geo don't do leased lines, they do dark fibre and wavelengths and metro ethernet services. Zayo will, but they're not going to be interested on the small end. Don't assume because the fibre is there it will be cheap - that's not how it works. The rentals are fairly tight no matter location these days, it's the excess construction charges that get you depending on location. Plenty of local firms can do you a leased line

[alexatkin]

(17-07-2014 02:14 PM)KarlAustin Wrote:  Geo don't do leased lines, they do dark fibre and wavelengths and metro ethernet services. Zayo will, but they're not going to be interested on the small end. Don't assume because the fibre is there it will be cheap - that's not how it works. The rentals are fairly tight no matter location these days, it's the excess construction charges that get you depending on location. Plenty of local firms can do you a leased line

Have you seen the price of leased lines though? Even if it was MUCH cheaper it would still be hugely hugely expensive.

[KarlAustin]

We sell them, so yes and those are BT prices, so what do you really expect?

[Zytron]

I'm tempted to get a couple of quotes. It's the only way I'll get decent speed.

[KarlAustin]

Feel free to PM me and I'll happily do you a quote.

[bgnx]

Remember also with leased lines you are paying for a specific service with a specific amount of bandwidth and often with an SLA.

People have gotten used to their (in most cases) very stable, very fast and verrrrrrrrry cheap home broadband connection - a leased line is a completely different product and therefore the costs will obviously bear no relevance to your home broadband connection.

[KarlAustin]

Indeed. We are actually quite spoilt with reliable, usually not very contended broadband over here - well, it is contended, but when you're dealing with a large user base it tends to even out and most people browse in a "bursty" way which helps. A leased line, you should be able to push 24x7 at the speed you're paying for and expect it to be fixed pretty quick if it breaks.