2Mbps Broadband in every home by 2012

tomstickland

Good discussion about this over on Guardian.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/jan/29/digital-britain-lord-carter-broadband

Cannon_Fodder

some bug with the Guardian site, keeps flashing a black screen...

HH62

I get 0.5. No cable here. Can't even get a very good mobile signal so mobile broadband is a non-starter too.

SingleSue

mewbie wrote: »

4.91 - pwned.

5.8 - you're even more pwned!

olly300

bo_drinker wrote: »

My mother and many of her age will not want it nor interested in it. So it can't be everybody can it.

Move to Australia then I'm sure she will be interested in getting it.

AHAR

I wonder if the UK does better than some "faster" countries in terms of % of population who can access a broadband connection as that's what BT concentrated on for a long time rather than speed.

If we're having a competition, I've just got 6190kbps from the test at http://www.mybroadbandspeed.co.uk/speedtest

My dad is stuck at 512kbps due to the distance from the exchange. Whenever he grumbles about it I tell him they'll improve it someday...looks like there may be a couple more years to wait though.

Cleaver

bo_drinker wrote: »

My mother and many of her age will not want it nor interested in it.

That's not what she was saying to me last night.

vic1

My mums not intrested either has to get grandchildren to work dvd and video player. Sister who lives near to her can't get broadband or mobiles signals and they don't live in the back of beyond . i live in a city and some of our industrial estates have yet to get reliable broad band so this sounds like soundbites to me. good news is my mum says we can all share her bit of broadband.

Pound

PasturesNew wrote: »

I have Virgin Media ADSL and every time I have tested it it is ridiculously slow.[/URL]

I've been getting speeds similar to dialup for the past week... should be 1 Mb

Cannon_Fodder

mizzbiz wrote: »

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

But i'm not cynical!

spot on... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8102756.stm


" Every Briton with a fixed-line phone will pay a "small levy" of 50p per month to pay for faster net access. The national fund created by the levy will be used to ensure most Britons get access to future net technologies.
The proposal is part of the Digital Britain report outlined by Culture Secretary Ben Bradshaw in Parliament. "


Still a long way from universal "decent" speeds, as they say plans are to "...extend coverage to the 15% of UK homes which do not receive broadband at 2Mbps. The government has pledged to complete this by 2012."

"the tax will mean that 90% of the UK will be able to benefit from broadband of up to 50Mbps by 2017."

And yet Gordon Brown says "Britain is going to lead the world. This is us taking the next step into the future to being the digital capital of the world."

How can we lead, when we are a decade behind countries that ALREADY have 100Mbps...??