UK Delays National Broadband For Three Years

DMandPenfold writes "The British government has said that it will not be able to complete the rollout of broadband across the UK until 2015, blaming a lack of funds. 'Under the previous Labour government's original plans, everyone in the UK would have had access to 2 megabits per second broadband by 2012.' On Thursday, UK Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt organized a meeting for major broadband providers 'to identify the current barriers to providing basic level broadband in rural areas as well as suggesting ways to make more use of publicly-owned networks, such as those connecting schools and hospitals.' BT, the country's biggest telco, estimates that the necessary government funding for the project will be as much as £2 billion."

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Re:Sexist

[1s44c]

Are you serious or was that a typo?

It was a joke, looks like.

Though there are 27 year old grandmothers out there. Get knocked up at 13, then if your daughter does the same....

The UK has plenty of council estate types who live off benefits and reproduce like crazy. They are the UK analog of American 'Trailer trash', only they get better benefits.

A 27 year old grandmother would be exceptional but not impossible.

Re:Farce

[commodore64_love]

>>>you want to replace all the phone lines with one of the most expensive metals around (copper) just so that you say "fiber is a waste".

Um... no? You don't need to replace phone lines to get DSL you stupid fuck. Where the hell have you been living? In a cave? DSL comes-in over the phone lines, but at much faster rates (upto 100,000 kbit/s versus 56k)

>>>The benefits of fiber are huge -

Yes they are but they disadvantages are also huge, like having to dig-up the front yards of ~10 million homes. It costs a lot of money to hire all that labor and is time-consuming as well. In contrast the phone lines are already there - no need to dig anything. Just install the DSLAM box and you're done.