Government reveals superfast broadband plans

[DorsetBoy]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11922424

Every community in the UK will gain access to superfast broadband by 2015 under plans due to be outlined.

The private sector is to deliver broadband to two thirds of the UK. Other, mainly rural, areas will receive public funds to build a "digital hub" with a fibre optic internet connection.

Ministers says they aim for the UK to have Europe's best broadband network.

This will create "hundreds of thousands of jobs and add billions to our GDP", says Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt.

The government has earmarked £830m for the scheme, with the money coming from the BBC licence fee.

Mr Hunt says the strategy will give the country Europe's best broadband network by 2015 and will be central to economic growth and the delivery of future public services, dependent on quick, reliable access to the internet.

He added that wider access to broadband services also helped "build a fairer and more prosperous society", as well as "saving billions of pounds of taxpayers' money"............(more)

[talos]

Yeh! yeh! Yeh! Same old story,
Problem is the engineers seem to get lost when the come to the countryside

[Lance]

Essex county council has been investing a small amount of money in rural broadband, with one successful pilot and more planned. Maybe people should lobby their county council too?

[zappaDPJ]

I guess it's hard to say if it's all talk but at least the talk is somewhat more forward thinking than the previous government's 2 MB/s promises. I don't quite get the part about pulling funds from the BBC though. That seems rather random doesn't it? 

[Gary]

Essex county council has been investing a small amount of money in rural broadband, with one successful pilot and more planned. Maybe people should lobby their county council too?

I doubt that will work in West Sussex, they are slamming down on care as it is, if they cannot afford to finance people to have carers I think Broadband may well be laughed out the hut they probably all work in now  

[Glenn]

Essex county council has been investing a small amount of money in rural broadband, with one successful pilot and more planned. Maybe people should lobby their county council too?

Does that happen to be in the village where the chairman lives? 

[pctech]

Central hub with a fibre optic connection.

Sounds like they are banking on Wi-Fi/WiMax, we have a council sponsored WiMax service in MK, it is hideously expesnive (min £40 a month)

[Gary]

Central hub with a fibre optic connection.

Sounds like they are banking on Wi-Fi/WiMax, we have a council sponsored WiMax service in MK, it is hideously expesnive (min £40 a month)

Nothing lke that here Mitch, we seem so far behind the times its untrue. The local council does not want to do anything that will change the face of certain parts of the area, like Chichester which has  a cathedral which is 935 years old years  and the City started life off as a Roman settlement in 43 AD, hence even a brightly lit shop sign gets never gets approval there, and the out lying villages are all quite old too, the one I live I pre-dates the doomsday book, everything is old and musty it seems, the same could be said of the local county councils ideas on anything modern so god forbid any masts or aerials carrying wifi or any other such technology. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chichester_Cathedral

[pctech]

I do like Historic towns and villages and can understand to a point but unless they want them to start dying off as people move elsewhere then attitudes have a change a little.

My point was that it is likely to become quite congested very quickly.

[talos]

Essex county council has been investing a small amount of money in rural broadband, with one successful pilot and more planned. Maybe people should lobby their county council too?

  Around here its the councill lobbying the people to sign up to the BT initiative.

[cavillas]

    I'm still laughing.

[Technical Ben]

I find it easier to manage if I imagine everyone talking like Jade Goodie.
"Yer the net is all webbed like. We are going hyper fast like that virgin Branston Pickle."

[Rik]

Take a pinch of salt, spread it on every word...

[Gary]

I find it easier to manage if I imagine everyone talking like Jade Goodie.
"Yer the net is all webbed like. We are going hyper fast like that virgin Branston Pickle."

I don't think she says much these days...

[Rik]

 

[Technical Ben]

I don't think she says much these days...

Yet we quote Shakespeare all the time?

[Rik]

I prefer to quote Burns.

[pctech]

Trouble with Burns is you have to be Scottish to know what the hell he's on about.

[Gary]

Yet we quote Shakespeare all the time?

No we don't, well not in this house, had enough of that for my A levels thank you  and don't get me started on translating The Canterbury Tales from middle English to modern English 

[Gary]

Trouble with Burns is you have to be Scottish to know what the hell he's on about.

I have had quite a few Chinese Burns 

[pctech]

Couldn't stand Shakespeare or even Seamus Heaney for that matter.

[Niall]

Well if they're revealing their superfastbroadband plans I might as well come clean and reveal my plans about my city on the moon.

[Rik]

Do go on, Niall, GCHQ is fascinated.

[Technical Ben]

Well if they're revealing their superfastbroadband plans I might as well come clean and reveal my plans about my city on the moon.

Get the bookies to accept a bid on "dwelling constructed on lunar surface" then build a house on top of NASAs samples.

[klipp]

I'm not holding my breath.  We've been promised various performance targets over the years and they never materialise.