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Originally Posted by theholydave
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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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.
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Originally Posted by BomberAF
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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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.