UK Government Invests in a Faster Future

[AntiHeroUK]

Does your broadband speed make you cringe as you wait for videos to buffer, music to stream and files to download?

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[Rastalovich]

£1m YAY

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[nathan]

Originally Posted by name='Rastalovich'

£1m YAY

?

it's more than nothing!

[monkey7]

It's 1/2000th of what they put into spying on their civilians! (I'm referring to the recent article about logging activities)

[Ham]

So buy the time im 80 i might be able to watch a youtube video without it stalling in my current residence?

[AntiHeroUK]

Originally Posted by name='Ham'

So buy the time im 80 i might be able to watch a youtube video without it stalling in my current residence?

Fingers crossed

[Pseudonym]

^Maybe if you start streaming it now.

Fibre optic cables??? Cutting edge stuff. Well at least they're doing something.

[nathan]

Originally Posted by name='Ham'

So buy the time im 80 i might be able to watch a youtube video without it stalling in my current residence?

well they could just pull £1 billion out of their arse's and build a new fibre network. O wait thats right, they screwed the UK up and stole money!

[Rastalovich]

They could put a heck of alot more by shaving a fraction of a %age of tax that the companies pay.

The announcement is more of a 'look what we're doing' than anything else.

The majority of the bandwidth there going to save is going to be by allow the isps to curb the rest of us. That I feel is already in place.

In regards to MPs claiming expenses, I don't blame any of them. The rules were there as they exist, and they made claims accordingly. Those who either made the rules or passed the claims are the ones who need to re-adjust their rules or not be so flexible.

[Yeungster]

Too little too late. Fibre-optic networks have their limitations too. I doubt the infrastructure will ever be able to meet demand.

Besides, the optical networks that are being enabled now are only partially optical. The rest is still copper wire.