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Chrysalis · 11-09-2008, 11:38

These reports are silly, there is people in villages who think they should be getting the same type of services as people in highly populated areas, it isnt viable and various services are non existant or reduced in such areas. In fact villagers in the uk are lucky as in most countries its dialup only.

What the report does highlight tho (assuming its accurate) is that providing broadband backhaul to low populated areas (non cable/llu areas) cost around 3 times as much as it does for main areas for 20% of the population, so effectively 15 times the cost per enabled house. It goes some way into explaining why all broadband sold using the BT wholesale ipstream infrastructure is very expensive and why LLU is considerably cheaper.

11-09-2008, 11:38	#12
Chrysalis cf.mega poster Join Date: Sep 2003 Posts: 12,048	Re: 'Tough choices' for UK broadband These reports are silly, there is people in villages who think they should be getting the same type of services as people in highly populated areas, it isnt viable and various services are non existant or reduced in such areas. In fact villagers in the uk are lucky as in most countries its dialup only. What the report does highlight tho (assuming its accurate) is that providing broadband backhaul to low populated areas (non cable/llu areas) cost around 3 times as much as it does for main areas for 20% of the population, so effectively 15 times the cost per enabled house. It goes some way into explaining why all broadband sold using the BT wholesale ipstream infrastructure is very expensive and why LLU is considerably cheaper.