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BT Shows First Fiber-Optic Broadband Rollout Plans
MJackson writes "BT has revealed new details about the roll-out of its £1.5bn programme to deploy super fast fibre optic broadband to as many as 10 million UK homes (40%) by 2012. Scotland will become one of the first places to benefit from next-generation broadband services, with more than 34,000 homes and businesses in Edinburgh and Glasgow receiving speeds of up to 40Mbps and potentially 60Mbps from early next year (2010). Overall, BT Openreach, which is responsible for ensuring that all rival operators have equality of access to BT's local network, aims to deploy Fibre to the Cabinet (FTTC) based next generation broadband services next summer (2010) to 500,000 homes and businesses in the UK."
FTTH is last gen. FTTC is the one before that.
Even my crappy cable company has installed 100Mbps FTTC here my low-rent burbs. (With in-your-face in-the-air cables no less!).
At my offices people are bitching that they've only got FFTH PON rather the PTP installed the other side of the street.
(Disclaimer for UK readers, I'm in France, so you are now allowed to stick your fingers in your ears and go LA LA LA I can't hear you).
Watch this Heartland Institute video
Damn, I thought that Scandinavia was the last pocket of civilization in the entire world.
You know, if you Europeans don't want all of those undesireable Islamic savages in your homelands, then you should import Mexicans instead. The logistics may be a pain, but Mexicans are loyal, proud, hard workers. Many of them are religious, true, but they have no desire to nuke you into oblivion because you dont bow down 5 times a day to Allah. They won't go slashing the throats of your Theo Van Goghs and whatnot. They just want to live life, as most civillized people who care about family do.
In fact, it would be in the continent Europe's best interest to reject citizenship to those to practice Islam. Muslims are scumbags and any nation would have everything to gain by banning them.
I wish BT would get a move on with this in England. I'm on aluminium cable last 800 metres from the cabinet to my house and that struggles to run 512/216 ADSL.
If they want a beta tester I'll do that for them.
Sigs. We don't need no steenking sigs.
But hey, slave labour is fine if you don't put chains on them.
Modern American "slave labour" dosen't bite the hand that feeds it. In Europe, the filthy Muslim scum are more than happy to kill the natives and pollute the population of progressive thinkers.
The difference between the Muslim and the Catholic is that the Catholic will have 8 kids, but all of them will work and none of them will try to kill you. The Muslims, especially those of African origin, will jam up your public schools and move to Spain or Holland where they will slit the throats of progressive filmmakers and issue Fatwas of death against people like Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Waras Dirie and Salman Rushdie.