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On Thu, 30 Sep 2010, Paul Sutton wrote:
On 30/09/10 13:36, stinga@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:On 30/09/10 13:05:35, Julian Hall wrote:FYI :) http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/11444083quote> A £132 funding pot is being shared by the European Union and BT. <quote Going to be high quality equipment then! I would pay double that to get fiber to my home!
It's £132 million you numptys...
From the report:
A new £132 million investment to deliver fibre-broadband to Cornwall has been announced today which will see between 80% and 90% of homes and businesses connected by 2014 to super-fast broadband. The remaining 10-20% of properties are to get access to faster broadband by other means such as Satellite or Wireless.I can't see anyone in their right minds wanting satellite, and we already did wireless in Cornwall (8 years ago)
yeah, i read on text service thing a while back they did a test between broadband and a few pigeons with sd cards attached to them or something, the pidgeos won, this was somewhere else in Englandm but was done to prove a point at how slow broadband is in some areas
I don't think these tests are very fair at all - it was a bit of a foregone conclusion - anyone could work out what how long the upload would take over their slow ADSL line - they deliberately picked soemthing that would take hours, yet knew the pidgeon would take a fraction of that.
Why don't they try it again, this time London to New York...Still - it got them the publicity they wanted. Maybe if they had £132 million tos pend they could get faster broadband...
Feeling a bit cynical today... Hmph. Broadband isn't a right, someone, somewhere has to pay for it, and that £132 million has come from European tax payers money, and where it is going? Into the pockets of a greedy privately owned telecoms company )-:
Gordon
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