Reply to post: Re: Disingenuous advertising

Up yours, Europe! Our 100% prime British broadband is cheaper than yours... but also slower and a bit of a rip-off

codejunky Silver badge

Re: Disingenuous advertising

@Roland6

"Within the industry, it is known that the time has come to junk the copper/aluminium/wet string POTS network and replace it entirely with fibre."

Why? Not the replacing the old and obsolete but why fibre?-

https://www.adamsmith.org/blog/the-bizarre-way-that-governments-spend-money

"So we could justify the entire conversion to fibre"

Many people can justify how they want to spend other peoples money. When it comes to spending their own the priorities change.

"However, we wish to accelerate the deployment of this new infrastructure so as to capitalise on the performance benefits"

But we dont. The uptake of current top speeds is lacklustre and those are in places deemed economically viable. If we can capitalise on performance benefits then people will stump up their own money for it.

"Whilst this could be benignly funded from government"

How? The government is already wasting money left right and centre without looking at the covid bailout costs. So far the gov has benignly funded various roll outs of broadband. Each time is criticized as a waste of money and causes local initiatives to collapse.

"So yes, people at foodbanks should have superfast broadband fibre cabled to their house, but don't expect them to pay more than they are currently paying, or even use it more."

Hence not worth it. The money could be better spent. Even reducing the tax burden on those at foodbanks.

"Interestingly, having for several years worked with UK Online, we've found that many people like being able to access the internet from "the foodbank""

I can believe that. Its a good idea.

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