BT Charge Points
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Makes sense for a company with experience in maintaining massive infrastructure to get involved. Internet connectivity should at least work (in theory!)
Kerbside will always be fraught with issues though. Not least because these are probably going to be 7kW chargers, which means overnight or nothing. Something as simple as someone parking incorrectly can knacker things up.
Kerbside will always be fraught with issues though. Not least because these are probably going to be 7kW chargers, which means overnight or nothing. Something as simple as someone parking incorrectly can knacker things up.
I guess the IpVoice will bypass the old cabinets, filled with old copper.
The cabinets are often in dodgy places, near junctions / at the back of a grass verge on a country lane / etc
Will be interesting to see how many sites can be used.
I guess a few people will be a bit miffed. If they had a BT cabinet outside their house, next an EV parking bay with the coming & going!
No doubt profitable
70p Kwh should boost their profits
The cabinets are often in dodgy places, near junctions / at the back of a grass verge on a country lane / etc
Will be interesting to see how many sites can be used.
I guess a few people will be a bit miffed. If they had a BT cabinet outside their house, next an EV parking bay with the coming & going!
No doubt profitable
70p Kwh should boost their profits
Edited by James6112 on Tuesday 9th January 15:02
charltjr said:
coetzeeh said:
How will cabinets become redundant?
The kit in them is being made redundant by the change to voice over IP for home use and the cabinets will be removed if they’re not repurposed.As they fed dwellings the majority will be in residential urban areas so useful to bolster charging capacity.
The Government has decided to let the market dictate the price. Just like the fuel that is currently consumed. The more capacity is added the more it is likely completion drives cost down.
If it is seen the market is not working then the Government of the day can intervene.
charltjr said:
coetzeeh said:
How will cabinets become redundant?
The kit in them is being made redundant by the change to voice over IP for home use and the cabinets will be removed if they’re not repurposed.The old green PCP cabinets have the lines that come from the local exchange, and have rows of IDC blocks to jump the connection to another cable that goes to a DP (up a phone pole, or on a wall of a building with flats/office block), which is jumped to to the wire into your house/business. When ADSL first came out, the equipment you connect to, a DSLAM was installed in the Exchanges. Once they had got the most out of that technology, to get higher speeds, they had to reduce the distance copper twisted pair (or Aluminium if you are unlucky), so installed new cabinets everywhere about 12 or so years ago, ran fibre to the cabs and installed the (new mini) DSLAMs in them, requiring these cabs to be powered, with the tested pair from the house still connected to the cabinet, and branded it as "Fibre Broadband". These are known as FTTC Cabinets.
If you wondered what is in them, look here:
https://kitz.co.uk/adsl/fttc-cabinets.htm
Moving from a copper connection in your house to fibre, means the powered FTTC cabinets holding the DSLAM equipment is being made redundant. Going to fibre does mean a voice line is now using VoIP, but is isn't the reason why the cabinets in their current form will be made redundant.
How long PSTN and ISDN services using the copper network hang around for is another matter.
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