Cornwall business claims FTTH technology makes little difference

An electronics company based in Cornwall has claimed the emergence of fibre to the home (FTTH) broadband technology brings few benefits compared to fibre to the cabinet (FTTC) services.

Some providers are attempting to push FTTH in order to utilise the most cutting-edge infrastructure available, but Arcol Technical Director Alun Morgan told Computing that businesses are "a few years away" from being able to get the best out of it.

Arcol received an FTTH connection as part of the Connecting Cornwall scheme and now enjoys speeds of more than 90Mbps, well above the UK average. 

But Mr Morgan explained that rather than the service at the company's office, it is employees receiving a fibre optic upgrade at home that has brought the biggest benefit. Arcol has some staff who are required to travel between 50 and 100 miles to get to work, meaning an option to work from home is essential.

He added: "Those people have a home connection [on FTTC] that has jumped from 1Mbps to 30Mbps. And its ability to interact with our [FTTH] 100Mbps service is absolutely incredible."