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Originally Posted by themelon
More caps are gonna happen im afraid, the UKs network isnt good enough to cope with Millions of people and rising on Broadband, downloading 20gb a day!! There just isnt the infastructure,
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I am sory but from what I understand about the UK's infrastructure - that is just plain rubbish. 90% of the fibre in the ground is simply unused. That is not an infrastructure that 'can not cope' - it is an infrastrucutre that is not being used.
Yes there are some issue around the first/last mile. However if access to the massive unused capcity that exists in the UK was available to thrid parties, either commercial or community, at prices that were a true reflection of the costs of provision, then even this bottleneck could be dealt with. With mini DSLAMs cable of delivering multi mb connections of existing copper pair costing < $5000 (and falling) and commodity technologies like wifi the last/first mile is not the problem. Access to the maaasive unused capacity that is already in the ground is the problem.
What actual evidence do you have that the 'UK's infrastructure can not cope'?