Ofcom Pushes For Fibre Optic Broadband

Of course, this is good news. Faster is better, but the fight over download limits needs to be won first. What good is all that speedy access to the ever more interesting (hello iPlayer) online content when you get booted / throttling from your ISP for using more than 40Gb a month - which let's face it, even just two year's ago was loads and is now hardly anything.

my money is on wireless/4g/5g for the mass market win.... there is a company making hardware (forget who) that will mean o2, voda etc will be able to deliver low cost 30mb down, 10mb up over mobile masts....next year
plug in one of those into your router/pc and your off..... no landline required...

wireless (wi-max) will be another solution.
ISP's would rather do that than dig up streets....

I'll go for whoever has the lowest latency.
or whoever let's me have broadband without having a landline telephone...at a reasonable cost of course ;-)

I would imagine the increased capacity of fibre will allow download limits to be relaxed somewhat.

But I'm sorry, what exactly are we being grateful to Ofcom for here? The statement quoted in the article doesn't say much more than "fibre is lovely" - where is the regulatory framework that encourages telcos to invest?

I don't see any mention of BT either. It's hard to imagine any worthwhile fibre optic broadband rollout taking place without them.

I wish Ireland's regulators were like Ofcom. Currently Eircom's plans for the future are 8MB broadband. I wouldn't mind but it will cost the same as 50MB in Paris...

£10 billion? Hmm, that's what the London Olympics is going to cost...

"£10 billion? Hmm, that's what the London Olympics is going to cost..." or was supposed to cost (give or take a couple of billion)?

The transition to fibre optic could be funded from the defense budget instead. What would benefit the UK most, 2 new 65,000 tonne aircraft carriers equipped with 32 Joint Strike Fighters each (at a combined cost of c.£16billion) or super fast broadband for streaming high definition content to our homes? Hmm. Tough call. Maybe just scrap the Olympics...

Ooh, it's got political. Personally I'd just give all the money to the guys at The Pirate Bay, so they can afford a Johnnie Cochran of intellectual property law.