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Announcements => News Articles => Topic started by: waltergmw on June 09, 2010, 09:33:36 AM
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Gentlefolk,
This is probably a step forward but I'm still apprehensive of any policy that aims for a minimum 2 Mbps throughput without a clear specification that it must be upgradeable to speeds at least an order of magnitude more, if not even more than that.
http://www.culture.gov.uk/news/ministers_speeches/7132.aspx
If you want a skim-read, look down to the heading Rapid roll-out of superfast broadband
and the following paragraphs.
Kind reagrds,
Walter
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Thanks for that, Walter.
Fine words, let's hope that they really do turn them into fine actions. :fingers:
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Sounds like we have a minister who actually knows something about IT.
Mandelson, I mean Labour never did.
All that money they wasted on IT projects could have gone a long way to providing a better IT infrastructure.
EX Old Labour Party Member.
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Interesting, and does look mostly positive to me.
One thing though, that I'd like to see, but I don't think I do see, is some commitment to force the ISPs to upgrade their own infrastructure (as opposed to the access network) to support high end-user connec tion speeds without congestion, without traffic-shaping, and with usage-caps that are reallistic in relation to the high speed access.
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Gentlefolk,
If anyone is interested in the background, there is a little more information here:-
http://www.bis.gov.uk/policies/business-sectors/telecommunications/broadband/bduk
It's encouraging to see that BIS is attempting to resolve the broadband access problem, but I do hope they will add the need for an upgrade path for the USO.
Kind regards,
Walter
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Interesting, and does look mostly positive to me.
One thing though, that I'd like to see, but I don't think I do see, is some commitment to force the ISPs to upgrade their own infrastructure (as opposed to the access network) to support high end-user connec tion speeds without congestion, without traffic-shaping, and with usage-caps that are reallistic in relation to the high speed access.
I agree, what is the point of having a faster infastructure if the ISP slows it down or makes you run out of usage the first week.
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Sounds like we have a minister who actually knows something about IT.
Maybe not.
Tories backtrack on broadband (http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1722969/torys-track-broadband)
THE GLOROUS RAINBOW ALLIANCE of the Tories and Liberal Democrats has decided that the great unwashed do not really need broadband after all.
Having previously believed that it could get big business to pay for connecting broadband to small rural communities, the government has finally admitted that its chums in the telecom industry laughed at the suggestion.
Again I repeat the only way we will get a fast broadband infastructure is to nationalise Openreach and pay for it from taxes.