Further Broadband news
Just a little development, and something I forgot to mention before. Some people in the UK (those living in some recently built houses) will have fibre optic lines. BT are hoping to increase this in the future, mostly by putting fibre lines into to new housing developments, meanwhile everyone else suffers.
Those of you in areas where you can get cable, you aren’t in a bad position, Virgin Media are rolling out their 50Mbps service to all their network, starting end of this year and finishing by 2009. Not all of us can get cable, where I live we can’t, and they said it was because there were too many trees, hmm, somehow I don’t think so. (I live in a small town, yeah there are trees, but not IN THE ROAD!)
Oh and to those of you living in Bournemouth, Northampton or Dundee you might be lucky, since H2O (a fibre company) are installing fibre optic lines in the existing sewer system, nice idea and saves money for them, not to mention time. They will offer 100Mpbs broadband along those lines. This service is expected to go live in the autumn.
Perhaps good news for the rest of us is that H2O are talking with other media providers, so perhaps we will see fibre in our sewer systems, long before BT gets over the fear of “never being able to get their money back”. Which is strange, last time I checked BT were responsible for the entire telephone network in the UK, all ISPs in this country pay money to BT to use the telephone network and for equipment in the exchanges. This means BT gets some of the money we pay our ISPs, so give us faster broadband, charge the ISPs a bit more. They could pass the cost to the consumer. We’ll still be on a similar system to what we are now, pay more get faster speeds. To be honest, I think BT are talking rubbish. Fibre optic cable is cheaper than copper cable, so sooner or later you will have to put fibre in. DON’T WASTE MONEY ON ALREADY OUTDATED SYSTEMS. See now I’m ranting again.
I think BT should talk to ISPs about this, then tell us how much our broadband will cost us, if it’s good then we can tell them to do it. Online petitions can only do so much, but at the end of the day, like any company, BT doesn’t have to listen to us so they won’t.
[Source: BBC Technology News]
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