High Cost of Converting UK To High-Speed Broadband

Posted by kdawson on Monday September 8, 2008 @09:23PM from the at-least-the're-doing-the-math dept.

Smivs notes a BBC report on a government study toting up the high cost of converting the UK to high speed broadband, which could exceed £28.8 B ($52.5 B). The options examined range from fiber to the neighborhood, providing 30-100 Mbps connections for a total cost of £5.1 B ($9.3 B), up to individual fiber to the home offering 1 Gbps to each household at a cost of £28.8 B. England's rural areas could pose tough choices. In the lowest-cost, fiber-to-the-neighborhood scenario, "The [group] estimates that getting fiber to the cabinets near the first 58% of households could cost about £1.9 B. The next 26% would cost about £1.4 B and the final 16% would cost £1.8 B."

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I see the future now...... by spasmhead · 2008-09-08 22:16 · Score: 5, Funny

The real mother of all broadband - 1 gigabit fibre to your home

Download 10000 MP3's or 500 movies in 5 minutes*

All for only £500 a month (Fair usage limits apply**)

*From legal sources only, though everyone knows the only place you can get that amount of files is from illegal sources, even though we hate file sharers making us a bunch of 2 faced cunts.

**If you download more than 1Meg during some unspecified time limit that differs throughout the country we will limit your speed to 512k. Full speed will be reinstated after another unspecified time period. Unrestricted access is only available between the times of 01:00 - 01:10 each day.