AnOther Posted July 16, 2008 Share Posted July 16, 2008 Anybody else agree that the position of UK in the world is shameful, it is after all a small (overpopulated) island and, allegedly, one of the worlds richest nations.EDIT: Make that 6th largest economyI do take the French position with more than a grain of scepticism though.[img]http://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/Images/commentarynews/broadbandspeedchart.jpg[/img] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pierre ZFP Posted July 16, 2008 Share Posted July 16, 2008 And the German figure is completely optimistic. You can just about get 2mbit in some places like cities but in rural areas forget it. The reason? some years ago the Germans replaced a lot of their copper with shiney new aluminium. Pity they didn't remember that aluminium degrades rapidly and attenuates the signal dramatically.The Swedish figure looks odd too as according to a Swede I work with, the minimum speed is 20mbit ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnOther Posted July 16, 2008 Author Share Posted July 16, 2008 Is that where Milton Keynes got the idea from then [;-)] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Posted July 16, 2008 Share Posted July 16, 2008 Around 15 years ago I worked for a large UK telecoms company - some contracts were given out to install high capacity digital equipment in the rural areas across 'our patch'. We wondered why this was as there was certainly much more capacity being installed than would be required in the foreseeable future. Then it was all put 'on hold'. Why, because the regulater said that it would be unfair to any possible competition. This was at the time that the cable companies were digging up the roads in urban areas. Well, said cable companies never spread out much beyond the built up areas as they couldn't see a profit in it. The equipment I saw installed? Well, I think it was all removed and put elsewhere. It seemed to me at the time that competition slowed down progress rather than moved things along.Regards - Tim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolybananasbrother Posted July 16, 2008 Share Posted July 16, 2008 Again, it was weak regulation whicxh did not insist on cable being spread more widely, rather than just in the 'profitable' areas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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