Gentlefolk,
This is another “Are you sitting comfortably ? ... Then I’ll begin ...”
Firstly stir the old grey cells’ memories by reading this:-
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-11287904Then ask whether the intention there was to
benefit 80 homes with a sub-standard ADSL1 service instead of a new VDSL2 cabinet or whether it might also have been to annihilate a minnow ?
Now read this:-
http://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/s/2090050_ewhurst_stuck_in_superhighway_slow_laneand then ask yourselves what national benefit was obtained by squandering public sector money for about a year on a preliminary and then a full RDPE Grant invitation, as well as our very significant effort ?
Perhaps then ask what long term benefit can there be from a dead end solution without any universal service obligation on noisy copper and aluminium D side lines to nearly 4 km, much of which is buried unducted ?
Finally top it off with a bit of gut-wrenching hilarity:-
http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2011/03/24/246061/include-community-broadband-networks-vaizey-urges-counties.htmlDoes anybody in authority have any real idea what they are up to or where this nation is going ?
Some might even recall the “Communications rail crash” from my Parliamentary submission during the last parliament !
Kind regards,
Walter
