" What absolute codswallop." Hmm While the cited possible option may not be true, on the front line of day to day fault handling with BT I can assure you there is an epic volume of buck passing and challenged SFIs on ADSL and a massive percentage less on FTTC as you (BT) can see the fault condition and will attend to it rather than claiming it is everything other than the copper/dslam port.
I am sad to see BT owned modems not being left as an option.. Peter -----Original Message----- From: uknof [mailto:uknof-boun...@lists.uknof.org.uk] On Behalf Of Neil J. McRae Sent: 10 September 2015 14:59 To: Gord Slater Cc: uknof@lists.uknof.org.uk; Tom Hill; Brandon Butterworth Subject: Re: [uknof] Openreach withdrawal of FTTC CPEs > On 10 Sep 2015, at 13:07, Gord Slater <gordsla...@gmail.com> wrote: > > But like Brandon says, that's another issue - it's the end-end+demark > principle. I see this as BT Group washing their hands of things as a > business tactic to raise profits on SFI visits and dodge out of fixing > the faults in their plant. I can see only one winner there. What absolute codswallop. "Dodge out of fixing the faults" ?! If there is a problem and it needs fixing then we want to fix it. We want customers to be happy, I would assert we make more money having stuff that works than stuff that doesn't. In an ideal world the FTTC OR box would never have been deployed but given the lack of maturity and compatibility issues back then in VDSL chipsets it was felt that having this as part of the product was unavoidable. It's a very different world now.
