Fibre Optic Upgrade

[Anonymous]

BT are installing Fibre Optic cables to some of the transmitters in the Madeley Telford area does any one know why.

Is it ready of upgrade to 4g or to improve the capacity of the cell

[Cleoriff]

No idea @Anonymous

Have you asked this on the BT Forum? I am sure they would be better placed to answer....:smileywink:

[Bambino]

Where did you get this information from? Fibre optic cables are for home or office broadband. Nothing to do with 4G.

https://www.cable.co.uk/guides/fibre-broadband-vs-4g-mobile-broadband/

[Anonymous]

Bt have been trying to compete with Virgin Media for a long time and they are expanding.

I know that Virgin are expanding again and laying more cable, so this may be BT's answer

[Cleoriff]

I have just been given this information by a good friend

If BT are installing fibre to the transmitters this is for backhaul capacity.

Remember in an IP orientated world all mobile comms are using data not physical lines these days and backhaul will be over fibre / point to point microwave as opposed to copper cable. Some info from BT here https://www.btwholesale.com/shared/docu ... _05_09.doc

[Cleoriff]

My lucky day....which is lucky for the OP...I have been given further info on this very specialised subject

"When using your phone over the data network, your handset sends data to the local mast. That data then leaves the o2 gsm network and goes onto the Internet. Where 4g is live this is normally through fibre optic cables. This is necessary to provide the high bandwidth required. The data goes to the Internet servers, responses are received, and then data goes back via the fibre optic network to your nearest transmitter to come back to your phone. This all happens in milliseconds.

So as BT are adding fibre optics to your local masts in Telford this will be to increase capacity and if 4g is not there yet will almost certainly be a precursor to its arrival in the coming months"

Credit to @Anonymous

[Bambino]

I didn't know that. I stand corrected.

[Cleoriff]

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@Bambino wrote:

I didn't know that. I stand corrected.

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I didn't either @Bambino I was just lucky to get the information from some people who understood a lot more than me  (and thats not hard :smileywink:)

[jonsie]

We all live and learn....I had an idea how it worked without the detailed indepth explanation. Good to know 

[Anonymous]

The vast majority of the UK internet backbone is fibre, by extending this out to phone masts and domestic broadband (virgin and bt infinity) we all benefit from greater bandwidth. I used to be a beta tester for Pipex broadband before it was sold, they always had excellent network capacity and your login defined what part of the network you were on - they had spare cpacity that was never used in everyday use, the beta testers had this to ourselves - I never complained about congestion!!