UK comms revenues reach all-time low of £54.7bn, as internet kills the TV star Communications revenues in the UK reached their lowest point in 2017, falling 2.1 per cent to £54.7bn, while people are ditching calls and texts for over-the-top messaging, according to Ofcom. In its annual state of the communications market report, the comms regulator said that the decline was due to contracting TV revenues, …
In this case, superfast is faster than fast (which is standard), as opposed to the internet connection that I have which is standard (i.e. fecking slow). Hope that clears things up :)
Treating things seriously for a minute, the gov (in the first result I found on Google, so take that with a pinch of salt) defines superfast as a download speed exceeding 24 mbps. Other Google hits centre around the 25 to 30 mbps region. What you and I would call "normal" speed.
iPod (or mp3 for those not apple fanbois) killed the walkman years back ....
I've said for a few years (since LTE came out) if BT/OR dont get their act together and start offering something decent, Mobile will Kill Fixed line for data.
LTE-A is generally capable of 100Mbps Symetric and with static endpoitns can hit 1Gbps.
making it 4 times the Ofcom "SuperFast" tag does that make it Ultra fast, or should we rename 24Mbps SuperSlow? VDSL2+ wave 2(78Mbps/20Mbps) might qualift as not slow
DOCSIS 3.0 (by Virgin Media) at 300Mbps might even qualify as fast, but for super fast, your looking at atleast 1Gbps and upto 10Gbps IMHO, which means FTTP or DOCSIS3.1 (G.Fast might do it, but its a lot of effort and maintainainance)
"the very first song played on MTV in the uk was "video killed the radio" star by Buggles... time for a rewrite of that song to "internet killed the telephone call" ...."
I wonder if that's true. Apparently the first song played on MTV Europe when it launched in 1987 was Dire Straits' "Money for Nothing". MTV UK & Ireland launched in 1997 but I have no idea what it played on opening night.
62 per cent of the time people spent on the internet was from mobile devices, and just 25 per cent of time is on a desktop or laptop
That leaves 13% who don't access the internet from a computer, a phone or a tablet. How do they do that, telepathy? Or does that include TV streaming?
A quick google finds as a data point[1] our entire GDP was around £52.7bn in 1970. A phone (let alone a phone call) may have been a somewhat-expensive luxury back then, but I doubt they consumed more than 100% of the entire economy!
I'm not even being pedantic when I say claims like "all-time low" need to be qualified! There is genuinely no clue in the article WTF the claim is supposed to mean!
[1] Or rather two data points: GDP $130.672bn, and exchange rate 0.4033.
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