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Originally Posted by Broadbandings
It's also incredibly competitive there, with FTTH competing with extremely fast DSL and extremely high performance cable, while here it's average competing with mediocre competing with rubbish.
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It sounds like BT are planning to have fibre to the cabinet for 40% of the country by 2012 (BBC News). That will bring ADSL up to 50Mb for some lucky people. The problem is that by 2012 they will be over 10 years behind Japan, and the gap will only be widening.
The excuse that there is more competition there does not make the situation any more acceptable. As we have now discovered we are already a largely service based economy, and we if allow oursleves to fall too far behind in the development of broadband we are going to suffer.
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That is the case in Japan, but on the other hand a part of this is due to their customers and in turn the UK as a whole being cheap about how much we pay for our providings. Far too many people want to pay next to nothing then will go complain like crazy when it doesn't work as they'd like it to.
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Actually, you can get 100/100 fibre here for about 20 quid a month. A basic "up to 50meg" ADSL line is about fiftenn pounds a month. That's pretty much the minimum speed available. All truely unlimited, BTW.