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Pbryanw

12:44 AM on 30 January, 2009

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Trusted Reviews, reading dull reports so you don't have to (I hope Gordon didn't have to read the whole 86 pages?). Anyway while it's good that everyone will get a base level of broadband by 2012, I'm disappointed that fibre roll-out to the whole country was postponed to be decided by another meeting (which means another delay).

I'd love it if fibre-to-the-home actually got the go-ahead and investment from the Government. I can't see BT/ISPs squeezing much more out of our current copper phone-lines. Certainly not the 100Mb which fibre might deliver.

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Tony Walker

10:11 AM on 30 January, 2009

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Remember when they said they really couldn't get more than 2400 bits/sec out of a phone line? And you would have to give the devil a kidney or two to get processors under 300nm (Intel is due to go to 32nm soon).

So they may yet get more out of copper, but they could and should have fibre'd up the nation 10 years ago.

Fibre should be capable of multi-gigabit speeds, however the infrastructure won't be able to cope with that for quite a while, so speeds would be increased gradually from the 100Mb you mention.

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drdark

11:04 AM on 30 January, 2009

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You should send Lord Carter that report about online music sales being up by 25%. Some people just like to be blinded by big corporations...

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