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UK Completes 250km of Undersea Broadband Rollouts

Posted by timothy on from the part-of-the-anti-independence-conspiracy dept.

DW100 writes The UK has completed a highly challenging rollout of broadband to remote islands in Scotland, covering 250km of seabed. The work has taken many months but will mean some 150,000 residents in the islands will be able to get broadband of up to 80Mbps. A cable laying ship, the Rene Descartes, carried out the work, with the longest cable stretching 50 miles between islands.

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  1. GCHQ by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Brought t you by... GCHQ! It only takes a price mark-up of 100%, but hey, you've got a total backup of your data!

  2. Re:cable?? Bit extravagant, aren't we? by Richard_at_work · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You know what also happens a heck of a lot up there? Storms. And you know what storms can do? Degrade radio transmissions significantly.

    And why would submarines be colliding with cables laid on the sea bed? That would require submarines to be dragging themselves across the sea bed - which they don't normally do...

  3. Better than the USA by Roodvlees · · Score: 3, Insightful

    So now even remote scottish islanders have better internet than most of the US.
    When will the US realize they have to regulate their internet market?
    Will it be when Africa passes them in average internet connection?(every other populated continent has)
    Will it be when other nations start to apply diplomatic pressure because they are slowing down the world as a whole?
    Will it be when they end up as the nation in the world with the worst internet connection?

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