Finally We All Might Get Good Internet?
 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8579333.stm

Labour Party: Gordon Brown's super-fast broadband for all plan

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*snigger*

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:rofl:

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Yep i read that this morning, and two words came to mind "Pigs" and "Fly"
and this was after i had to have my sides stiched back together i was laughing so much.

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Say hello (and goodbye) to the Internet.
The latest political chew-toy, since all the perennial ones are too ripped up to save.
Please meddle with me, regulate me, bury me under bureaucracy until I'm unrecognisable and unusable.

Why the hell can't they leave anything alone?!! :mad:

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It's just more rubbish being fed into your brain to try and get you to re elect Brown, sorry it wont work

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Could there be an election coming up?

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So which company if any other than BT will receive some of this money

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Whoever presents the best plan for each project according to the Digital Economy bill. Nothing BT specific at all.

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Is this limited to ADSL, or can fibre optic, mobile etc companies can propose too?

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after moving from the city to a village.....you can only imagine how different the speed is!!! =(
its laughable that he says that uk is going to 'lead the way' when we're already soo soo soo soo so far behind .....what a jerk he is!?
having said that tho...the idea is sound enough..... force every company to stump up some cash... sorry...invest in a fibre optic main frame for our 21st c. super highway.....more than likely due for completetion some time in the 22nd c!!!!!!

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Bearing in mind we're in a recession, who is supposed to pay for all this magical work?

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There's only one place the Gov will get £30million from.

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Pie-throwing contest... Target: Gorden Brown?

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Now that I would happily pay to do on condition I can stick something either sharp or seriously unpleasant in the pie.

As far as costs go you guys do remember that 50p/month phone line tax that was discussed right? This is a reannouncement of that, just electioneering nothing more.

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How quickly they forget!:D

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.....???where did vm get the money for their f/o network......?????
i dont know the answer to this but i'm guessing either
1 own pockets/investment.
2 not from the tax payer.
why should any other provider get different, if they do, is it fair for vm to get some of the cash(back) too???

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Would you really like to see VM being forced to relase their network to other ISP's as BT have been?

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Just another Stealth Tax.

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Super fast broadband, if they try and do this it will be the biggest FURBAR in the world, just leave the net alone Brown, I can see the headlines no, million left without broadband because Labour can't afford the upgrade costs, or new TAX to pay for broadband upgrades.

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IT's not going to be superfast broadband it's only going to be 40Mb, I currently have 50Mb, and later this year VM are releasing 100Mb.

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40Mbit is 'super fast', Ofcom appear to define it as anything above 24Mbit and I'm sure those who are presently unable to even get 10Mbit would probably agree regardless of what you personally may have.

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I think OFCOM need to get a grip, while we welcome the steam train Japan welcomes the jet engine?

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After all the tripe and lies this goverment states, you really believe Browner would carry out his pledge??-
Why do the goverment have to get involved when theres a good thing going, as soon as its making shed loads of money they tax it.

Superfast broadband.(lmfao!) im on 20Meg, im lucky to get a decent connection at times

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And who is going to pay for this jet engine, you?

I'd have a look at just how much the Japanese government subsidises fibre in the country and see if you fancy some of that added to your tax bill, I personally don't.

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I take your point, but don't you think they should just go in one big hit, and give all the major towns and citys BB which is on par with Japan and Korea? My reason for saying that is because the 40Mb isn't really that fast in the grand scheme of things and I don't believe it to be future proof, and as such in the future it will need to be upgraded once again therefore costing us even more money. You could be panny smart but pound stupid.

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BT was privatised in the 80's and due to their failings we have to bail them out with an additional tax to improve their broadband network

Cheers

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totally not mate, what i mean is that vm paid for it themselves. political parties are now saying that they're gna give funding to folks like bt (pos from tv liscence fee) to pay for those networks to get updated......my point is that this is unfair to vm. if they are gna give them money, vm should get some too............................
but thinking on.............is a good or bad thing if the whole network was f/o and open to all suppliers, we're all customers/consumers and getting the best pos delivery to the highest number of people is surely a good thing eh???
peace.

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Nothing in the bill that's BT specific at all. No failings involved either. The 50p is for non-urban areas to get faster Internet, these areas are unlikely to provide a return on investment. No failings just those are the numbers.

---------- Post added at 11:13 ---------- Previous post was at 11:11 ----------

50% of the 40Mbit investment BT are doing will be reusable for fibre to the home.

The best thing the government can do is remove legislative barriers and give some more guidance to local authorities to allow these networks to be built.

Sadly we won't be on a par with Japan / Korea - they have aerial fibre which is something that's not really an option in many places in the UK and would raise moans from people in others (while they complain about their lack of high speed Internet at the same time of course).

There's a few reasons but mostly the government is the problem, not the solution, in the urban areas.