It's been on BBC news a lot today.
One thing that worries me is I'm not sure the reporters understand the difference between connection speed (often quoted as 'up to 20 meg' or whatever), and the real-life download speed which is determined entirely at the whim of the ISP's traffic shaping policy, and also by the financial investments they are prepared to make in they're own infrastructure.
I've a horrible feeling that Ofcom don't really get it either. I'm betting Ofcom will do their best, and we'll end up with a much clearer expectation of what connection speed we can expect. Better still, FTTC may be rolled out, so we all really do get blistering connection speeds.
But t won't help as we'll still have no idea how long it will take to download (say) a 4.7GB DVD image, or whether we can stream video without puases, because that's a matter of ISP policy as well as than connection speed. Speaking purely for myself, during working hours, demon's download 'throttle' means I'm lucky to utilise more than 10% of my 4Meg IP profile, for anything other than speed-test sites (which are usually not throttled). That's the problem I think the legislators should be tackling, but I just don't think they really understand it.
Pessimistically,
7LM