GOVERNMENT PLEDGES NATIONWIDE FULL FIBRE BROADBAND BY........

[rockits]

.....wait for it.......2033! Yes you read it right.....2033. That's a 3 not a 2 believe it or not!!!

Don't want to rush it as it is not as though it is globally important that we keep up is it?! Not that we are behind already by much is it?

At the moment, the UK has only 4 percent full fibre connections and lags behind many of our key competitors Spain (71 percent), Portugal (89 percent) France (28 percent and increasing quickly).

Comical.

Government Pledges Nationwide Full Fibre Broadband By 2033 | Silicon UK

 

[kid-jensen]

All the time it doesn't suit BT to create the infrastructure, we won't get it in any kind of a hurry...

Still acting like the Monopoly they once were.

 

[KillerHERTZ]

Remember to keep Politics out of this thread.

 

[Doodle]

7 years after the rest of the area got FTTC, our cabinet is pretty much the only one still not supported. I suspect even with 15 years warning, Openleech won't be able to find their own backsides.

 

[markjay]

The main issue for BT is that taxes and labour costs in the UK are not very conservative compared to other liberal and democratic countries in the West, where you work hard but then they let you keep what you've earned.

 

[GeeJayW]

Fibre broadband everywhere eh? Would be interesting to see the official definition of everywhere.

Outside of the major cities, the UK internet and phone infrastructure is at best patchy and will remain so for decades. Unless some big corporation is making a ton of money out of it, it ain't happening. The recent headlines about 5G are properly annoying. The are still large areas of the country where there is no mobile phone signal let alone 4G.

 

[grober]

Unfortunately the privatisation of public monopolies has merely resulted in their replacement by private monopolies - in this case Open Reach. There are valid standardisation arguments of course for a single organisation providing infrastructure but it might be argued that the rolling out of fast fibre to uneconomic areas is a burden to be born by the income of the organisation controlling, and thus profiting from, their monopoly in the field ? The British model would appear to be different however, whereby government subsidy derived from taxation is expected to shoulder that burden rather than the shareholders of the monopoly holder . Its the usual UK heads you lose, tails I win situation.

 

[219]

We’ve been watching Openreach digging up the road and laying fibre past our house over the last several weeks .

Not that it will do us much good . The works are to distribute fibre to the village up the road , where various new cabinets are sprouting out of the pavements.

In theory , we benefit from FTTC , but the cabinet we are served by is four miles down the road in the other village , so we struggle to better 1 Meg down most of the time .

Mobile service is really patchy on 3G too , depending on which carrier you are trying to use .

 

[John]

Something similar was promised in the late noughties but a much sooner date.

That went well then.

 

[AltonAnt]

All the time it doesn't suit BT to create the infrastructure, we won't get it in any kind of a hurry...

Still acting like the Monopoly they once were.

BT did offer to rollout fibre for the whole country but guess who stopped them?

How Thatcher killed the UK's superfast broadband before it even existed | TechRadar