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TheEvilGenius

3:37 PM on 27 May, 2009

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I'll eat my own face if we get this anytime soon... And if we do I suspect it will be major urban areas only and at a fraction of the speed, but most of the cost.

Or maybe I'm just jaded and cynical.

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Gordon394

3:39 PM on 27 May, 2009

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@TheEvilGenius - I think any fraction of 160Mbit is probably going to be ok ;)

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TarikBos

3:47 PM on 27 May, 2009

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i was under the impression land lines were only hitting 100 mbps speeds, this is crazy, if they would just roll this out all over europe we could all ditch our landlines and watch HD movies anywere!!! ok this upgrade adds bittorent downloads to the "what i can do on the move" list but that pretty much it i guess.

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lifethroughalens

4:37 PM on 27 May, 2009

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With TheEvilGenius on this one. This might as well be a short story by H.G. Wells!

Judging by the inconsistent & poor UK 3G coverage after years and years of roll-outs and network upgrades, this is well and truly a pipe dream. This'll take 10 years to reach the masses!

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Tim Sutton

5:04 PM on 27 May, 2009

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Good gravy! 160Mbit? BT better start knitting those fibre optic cables.

I assume that this'll be rolled out in the areas that have no 3G service at all first? Because that would be fair, seeing as how I'm writing this on my phone in Devon and basically attaching it to a carrier pigeon to send.

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Tony Walker

6:19 PM on 27 May, 2009

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Well, I'm "in the middle of nowhere" (sic) 12 miles east of Manchester and would currently settle for coverage of any description.

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John McLean

6:27 PM on 27 May, 2009

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But the massive headline bandwidth doesn't look so rosy when you factor in that it has to be shared among many many users. With BT you may get contention of say 50:1 (meaning they sell 1,000 8 Mb/s lines (total theoretical throughput 8,000 Mb/s) but the backbone only supports 160 Mb/s. With mobile broadband, the contention is massively higher (think many thousands to one in the case of mass uptake in an urban area). Not saying this isn't awesome (it clearly is) but it is no replacement for fixed lines. Ideally we want superfast fibre to the home / office, thereby keeping the airwaves free for superfast LTE speeds on the road with minimal contention.

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GoldenGuy

8:03 PM on 27 May, 2009

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Why does the logo look... 'fun'? That's not right. Icons for technological standards are supposed to be bland and wear their :( serious face.

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rav

10:44 PM on 27 May, 2009

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sounds amazing but there's no point getting too excited if current mobile coverage is anything to go by.

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timple

12:11 PM on 28 May, 2009

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Time for new network operator "4" funded by Hutchinson Whampoa to announce its plans....

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