Having experienced the disruption here for VM work I do understand people being upset by using underground cabling. In many ways I am starting to feel that the drive to greater and greater broadband speeds is something quite a significant number of people just do not see the need for. I very much doubt much more than 1% of the domestic population need anything more than 80mbps. What I think should be concentrated on is getting 50+mbps to everyone reliably. Certainly round here there are quite a number of people just do not see the disruption we had as worthwhile.
Stuart
Agree with all of that.
We spent the 20th century building bigger and bigger motorways to cope with road traffic demands, until the penny dropped that it was all pointless, as road traffic will simply expand to fill the available road space. I have no doubt the same applies to broadband. The more bandwidth that becomes available, the more it will be consumed by general ‘bloat’ of the services offered.
Can you imagine doing your Christmas shopping, or booking a hotel or a flight, using a 28kbps dial up? That worked well enough in the early noughties, but I doubt it would work well now.
But it’s worse than the roads comparison because at least with road traffic, nearly everybody stood to benefit from a new motorway during the brief honeymoon period, before it filled up. Even if you lived on a remote Scottish island, you could drive down south for holidays and see some benefit. With broadband only a lucky few, town and city dwellers, tend to be offered the chance to benefit in any way at all from each new generation of technology before it is obsoleted.