It's emerged today that BT Openreach is to hire another 400 roving engineers. The main need is for engineers to help with the national fibre broadband rollout.
BT says that the majority of the jobs will be given to ex-forces personnel. Presumably those who received appropriate engineering training while serving the country.
BT is working with The Career Transition Partnership (CTP), which is described as "an arrangement between the Ministry of Defence (MoD) and Right Management."
BT has some aggressive targets to meet, both self-imposed and imposed by government. It's doing that mainly by implementing fibre to the cabinet (FTTC), but we're also seeing early moves towards "full" fibre to the premises (FTTP) in Spring 2013.
In FTTC, BT installs green cabinets -- as pictured, spotted by Mike Cattell in Basingstoke?-- close to homes and businesses that contain the ADSL kit that's traditionally been farther away, in the exchange, the cabinets are connected to the exchange with fibre. The advantage of getting the ADSL -- actually VDSL2 -- hardware closer to you is that it can run faster. I talked more about this modern marvel of eking out more speed over our copper infrastructure back in May.
?
Richi Jennings 
, editor of Input Output UK, is also an independent analyst, specializing in blogging, email, spam, security, and other technology topics. His writing has won ASBPE and Neal awards. You can encircle him at +richi, follow him as @richi on Twitter, pretend to be his friend at Facebook.com/richij or just use boring old email: io@richij.com.
st. patrick s day brandon lloyd brandon lloyd celtic thunder fabrice muamba collapse prometheus trailer patrice oneal
No comments:
Post a Comment
Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment.