News BT offers investment plan for universal 10Mb/s broadband

10mb/s!!!

Lets party like its...2005.

 

Not a ****ing hope...

 

Translation: BT bribes the government with less than *2% of its yearly profits in exchange for dropping regulatory requirement.

*is my maths correct?

 

What annoys me here is yet again all they care about is the download speed. I live in a rural area lucky enough to get fibre, so people assume because I'm on fibre it's fast. Not exactly. I went from 2:1 on rADSL to 20:1 on fibre. I'd happily drop to 10 or 15 down if my upload speed could be increased.

I should probably add you're all so very lucky to be calling 10Mb/s a "2005 speed", where I live did not even have 2Mb/s back then!

 

We get a 1:10/1:15/1:10 ratio on the packages we get in our place. 50/5, 150/10 and 300/30 down/up. I wish the up was faster!

At my parents house, the ratio is close to 2:1 on Infinity, but that's because the download is so **** poor thanks to aluminium cabling.

10 Mbps is still rather slow... we had that in 2005, as said above.

 

Yep I think (and in my experience) saying a reliable 10Mb/s connection is meets the needs of a typical family is basically true.

For a lot of people HD streaming is about as intensive as it gets and substantial downloads are relatively rare so having to wait a little longer isn't an issue. Also browsing on a 10Mb/s connection is typically more than sufficient. I say this as a fairly intensive user who has 14Mb/s down.

As much as 10Mb/s might seem slow and dated for people used to much faster connections, I think taking that as a benchmark for universal availability is probably about right, and filling in the gaps where speeds a totally insufficient should really be a priority.

 

We should be investing for future requirements, not current.
Let's not make excuses. Where I live, at least, only one provider can offer speeds exceeding 100Mb/s. All others max out at 76Mb/s. Whereas when I lived in Sweden I had 100Mb/s broadband...That was 15 years ago.
The UK has under-invested in broadband infrastructure since the beginning. This offering is too little, too late....and probably mostly labour costs because the outdated equipment is now dirt cheap.

Out of interest I looked up what's on offer in Sweden today. This is what we're competing with, and to convert SEK to GBP - remove the last digit and it's a little less than that.

 

*plays the world's smallest violin*

I agree it's a bit of a **** show in general but there are substantial portions of rural UK where less than 50% can get 10Mb/s+ and many can't even get close to that.

I think that basic infrastructure should be a priority.

 

...and "basic infrastructure" should be defined in comparison to other countries, not to a woeful internal past record.
Unless of course, we just want to watch iPlayer and leave competing in the information age to others.

 

At least you're not in Australia... NBN is a right mess.

 

Oh, deja vu. I can't help but feel we've been here before. Every few years, either the Govt. or BT make a noise about improving the UK broadband infrastructure... and every few years, money gets spent but not an awful lot seems to happen...

 

I'd love 10Mb/s, can't wait for the day they come and throw the 1200m of cable away that runs to our cabinet and maybe they could re-route it so it doesn't practically touch the power cabling too. Hyped already, stop poo pooing the proposal guys.

 

So is it "all homes" or "99%"?

I'm assuming there's still no hope for my folks. They had 512k ADSL at one point, but after 12 months of sporadic reliability, multiple engineer visits and a 3 month stint where it didn't work at all, they cancelled, all of it, landline included.