[ChrisJones]

P.s. Happy Birthday!

[RSM123]

Originally Posted by ChrisJones

P.s. Happy Birthday!

Thanks.

Have a good week.

Rich.

[RSM123]

There was a brief report in the Evening Standard a few weeks ago, stating that the Gov. have reassured British Telecom that they won't be compelled to go Optic Fibre. BT duly reported it could take twenty years to complete.

I also recall reading that BT Line Rental is an antiquated charge which should have ended with privatisation, but was allowed to continue.



Not sure what other options there may be - Wimax ? Satellite ?

[ChrisJones]

Wimax and satellite arenot really an alternative IMO. Maybe WiMax but not satellite, the delay is too great.

As mentioned in the letter at the bottom of the first page of my link we're basically screwed until OFCOM/the government get off their arse and compel BT to go fibre, and sell dark fibre directly to the smaller ISP's instead of forcing them through LLU wholesalers like Tiscali who don't know their arse from their elbow!

Also as mentioned, getting rid of antequated ATM technology in favor of gig ethernet over fibre as the central back bones will be a massive bonus too as ATM has comparitively mch larger overheads than TCP/IP, and the really crazy thing is, it's still the same fibre! It's just a different mode of operation so simply by switching to TCP/IP BT could increase the backbone infrastructure capacity by over 30% (ATM =655Mbps : TCP/IP = 1024Mbps)

Bandwidth is not the problem, one single fibre optic cable can handle in excess of 129000 simultaneous phone calls, one undersea cable can handle >6 million phone calls at once! The problem is the business model that OFCOM has forced ISP's to adopt since the unbundling of the local loop in the early 00's. Only OFCOM or the Gov't can force BT to move on this. Until they get the balls to do so we're stuck in this mess.

[steppenwolf]

Originally Posted by johnnyburst79

Chicken Little is exactly right. We are one of the worst developed nations with regards to internet download speeds.

The ideology of "we will use it until it breaks and then find a new way" is completely illogical and incredibly lazy, but is that not America?

why no link?

[Gigacore]