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Originally Posted by Ignitionnet
Perfectly joined up. Even if sharing 50-50 with VM they'll still make more money for less outlay out of the 2/3rds of the country they are covering on the commercial rollout than many more remote areas.
BT are, after all, a business. I believe you're on the end of miles of pole mounted cable, less than 10 premises. Bit of a struggle for BT to justify building a new cabinet and a huge fibre run to that cabinet along with all the fibre to the exchange and the other very spread our premises served by that exchange needing new fibre and cabinets.
The current cabinets are to handle 230+ connections, not about 6. It's not just about sticking something shiny in the exchange and being done with it unfortunately.
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There's nothing joined up about it - and I'm talking about regulation, with grant assistance where necessary, not cold hard business. I'm well aware that BT are a business, but I am also well aware that there are plenty of pieces of essential infrastructure in this country that are beyond the means of private business to build or maintain. That's why the roads and (to all intents and purposes) the railways are not in private hands. The Government needs to be committed to substantially raising the universal requirement for data and then looking for infrastructure partners to bid to install it in the places BT says aren't cost-effective. I'm sure you have read some of the same stories that I have about BT suddenly finding it can fibre-up villages for a fraction of its original stated cost when it looked like the community council was about to go and get someone else to do it for them. Either BT or someone else ought to be able to run fast broadband to the furthest reaches of the UK, with Government help.
Setting up as a small rural business myself, I meet a lot of other people who are doing exactly the same, and the common thread with all of us is the need for fast, reliable internet connectivity. If we can't get it, then we have to commute, clogging up the roads and spending our newspaper, coffee and lunch money in places other than the small communities where we live and would prefer to work.
This country desperately needs decentralizing, and the internet is the best news we've ever had in that respect. But as the things you can do with the internet increasingly assume you have access to endless megs of bandwidth it gets no easier to use the internet as a means of working at, or near, a rural home.
As for our local set-up ... I'll have you know the exchange has 116 lines attached, not 10.
And only a handful of them are at the furthest extent of the pole-mounted copper.