2Mbps Broadband in every home by 2012

Cannon_Fodder

http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7858498.stm

"the government commits to ensuring all UK homes have access to 2Mbps broadband by 2012."

"In a statement to Parliament, the Culture Secretary Andy Burnham said Britain "led the world in content creation". "

*content creation*, smacks of padding, waffle, non-useful activity - a metaphor for the economy?

Not exactly trying to break any speed records, either...




Every aspect of our lives... will be dependent on the services that the digital network provides

Gordon Brown



But not important enough to get it right during the recession, so we bounce out of it with a competitive edge - you might have thought such an "infrastructure" project would be a sensible economy-helping expenditure?

Conflict

Cannon_Fodder wrote: »

That chart just shows why this is Very disappointing. 2Mbps should have been the minimum a couple of years ago not 2012, and realistically we would need to be aiming at 100 Mbps at 90%+ reach by 2012 if we are to have any kind of IT services to the home industry - which will instead be created in other countries. This will damage long term the UK as one of the world leaders in IT.

Kez100

Every, as in dictionary Every or as in UK Government Every?

I can prett much guarantee not everyone in the westcountry will get it.

purch

I would have thought that most people would have been able to get at least 2meg.

There are only a few exchanges left in the country that are not ADSL enabled.

I live in the middle of nowhere up on Exmoor and I connect at 6.5/7 meg !!!!

http://www.samknows.com/broadband/regions.php

mizzbiz

Aye, bet there's a lovely 'surfing' tax akin tot he TV licence tax to go with it too.

But i'm not cynical!

Conflict

purch wrote: »

I would have thought that most people would have been able to get at least 2meg.

There are only a few exchanges left in the country that are not ADSL enabled.

I live in the middle of nowhere up on Exmoor and I connect at 6.5/7 meg !!!!

http://www.samknows.com/broadband/regions.php

I can't - I live on the top of the Pennines can get 1.5Mbps (meant to be only 1 Mbps 'officially'). Its all down to distance from the exchange and the quality of the cable, so if your getting 7 Meg you must be within a mile or two of the exchange and have good cable between you and the exchange. The key is they need to force the rollout of fiber technology - either to the home or to the street cabinets - for the UK to at least partially keep up.

Rochdale_Pioneers

According to the tests I have run the theoretical maximum I can get is 2.5 meg. I have a contract that limits me to 1 meg but offers unlimited bandwidth - I'd rather have it slightly slower and have to freedom ro use iPlayer and download TV from Bittorrent as much as I like than to have slightly faster with a bandwidth cap.

What they need to do is to uncork these fast services. Too expensive as well as too sparse.

Conflict

Rochdale_Pioneers wrote: »

According to the tests I have run the theoretical maximum I can get is 2.5 meg. I have a contract that limits me to 1 meg but offers unlimited bandwidth - I'd rather have it slightly slower and have to freedom ro use iPlayer and download TV from Bittorrent as much as I like than to have slightly faster with a bandwidth cap.

What they need to do is to uncork these fast services. Too expensive as well as too sparse.

Change to any of the Entranet resellers, for a unlimited speed broadband then use the software application DMT to properly configure your router to get the maximum possible speed. Its how I manage to get 1.5Mbps on my connection, when BT used to say we could only get 0.5 Mbps.

People really shouldn't have to go through all these hoops though, and just shows how much work the UK's telecoms infastructure has to do if we are to compete.

boyse7en

purch wrote: »

I would have thought that most people would have been able to get at least 2meg.

There are only a few exchanges left in the country that are not ADSL enabled.

I live in the middle of nowhere up on Exmoor and I connect at 6.5/7 meg !!!!

http://www.samknows.com/broadband/regions.php

Well, I'm in Barnstaple and can only get 1.5mB, so there are an awful lot of people in a less fortunate position than you.

All this talk of TV on demand and the like are just a pipe dream until everyone can get faster broadband.

Face it, mobile broadband improvements (what happened to the 'SuperWAN' technology a few years ago?) and cost-reductions are going to be the only way they'll ever get decent broadband to everyone. There's no way it is ever going to be cost-effective, or even possible, to get fibre-optic to every house.

kennyboy66_2

I was more interested in the spin on the so called "digital divide".

If this really exists, why is youtube and the like full of North Face clad Ninja's sporting guns / knives and killer dogs ?

movingforward2010

but not if your bankrupt