Defence...
FTFY.
59 publicly visible posts • joined 19 Jan 2015
Totally agree with your comment about BT/Openreach.
BT for me guarantee 1Mb. I repeat - 1Mb. We did have a BT line (DEL) when we moved in but BT couldn't meet their guarantee - averaged out around 400Kb. At full cost. With a need to reclaim service credits monthly. And still to be marketed at for 2Mb sky services (!).
Use 4G also here. Only one tower and quite a few people using it (especially if road traffic is busy). Might get 3Mb, rising to 7Mb at quiet times.
Oh to live in London........ 5G, Gigabit, FTTP (even FTTC). I can dream....
No new industry - its already here. It's called the 'Legal' industry - you know, the ones that set the massive compliance requirements of EU GDPR in the first place.
Why do people have an issue with the UK (or anywhere) trying to move away from *MORE* regulation and towards a risk approach?
I want to know - what day will we be subject to less rules than the day before?
There MUST be such a day - or society will implode - but the rate of regulation and law coming out of the EU means their citizens won't see that day in their lifetime.
"It’d be interesting to know just how true that is"
Totally true.
"By contrast, a crew can easily string kilometres of overhead fibre in a day if the poles are in place. "
Totally true.
But they don't. Because BT declare the poles unusable. So fibre provider must plant new poles. And once they do - it has maxed out the budget so they do not follow through with the fibre.
I know - we have a new pole along a BT pole at the end of our drive. BT won't use it and the fibre provider won't use it. Great.
If all BT can offer you is a Direct Exchange Line - there are no plans to upgrade. Ever.
The most we can get is 0.4MB. for £29.99 a month. And only from BT. BT still try and push sky package as well. So we cancelled.
Now use a 4G router in the loft. Not great. But better than any plans BT have.
Then Cambridge 'County Broadband Ltd' took our pre-order for FTTP - it also helped them justify claiming the grant available.
Grant in hand they then pulled out of actually installing anything. Because "it would cost them". No sh*t sherlock.
So.. Back to our intermittent 4G it is - wait - seems its raining so only 3G today.
Why do I say that?
- tell me the 'value' of one unit of any crypto WITHOUT using a real (aka Fiat) currency in the answer.
So, look down on Fiat currencies if you are a crypto fan-boy - but until you can prove they are worth something without reference to another Fiat currency, and that there are rules and regulations to protect people, you are nothing more than a lower level ponzi scheme member.
People only accept crypto tokens when the $value of the tokens meets their requirements. They don't give a fig how many tokens it takes to reach that value. i.e. a car dealer may accept payment in tokens PROVIDED they are valued in a real currency to the value expected there and then in the real currency.
And let's face it - 99.999% of us cannot influence a crypto token system OR a currency system. So who cares who can controls them? and why?
Anyone on a Direct Exchange line is srewed. BT would need to re-cable/fire to your individual property (in a lot of cases - such an mine) and they couldn;t be arsed to do that if you also have no competition to take your business to.
BT/Openreach should be PAYING for my custom UNTIL they provide >10MBs (OfCom's own estimate of minimim viable speed required to partake in modern economy) OR there is an alternative provider willing to deliver.
As it is I have ONE choice - £29 per month for an at-best 0.5MB download. No planned update. No alternatives possible.
I do get FREE access to sky sports though (minimum 2Mb required). Gggrrrr.
EASYMONEY. NO INCENTIVE.
You need to get into the countryside more.
We cancelled BT/Openreach as the best we could get was 0.25 down. No plans to upgrade, no options from other suppliers. Bt or nothing. They have no incentive to upgrade us - but they do have an incentive to upgrade those with better options from other suppliers.
A lot of people forced now to work from home will be left behind - priority needs to be connecting those with sub 10Mb anf completely forget about any location that can but 10Mb+ (regardless of supplier).
I live in the country (i.e. >100M to the nearest fibre point).
I have no alternative providers available other than BT (Openreach)
I am therefore a captive audience (or 'sucker' as BT probably classify me as).
My broadband, on a good day, was 1.4Mbps. And frequently all the way down to 0.4Mbs.
BT did not offer to reduce my monthly bill below £29.
BT wanted £25,000 to connect me to the world (that's the 110M final leg to the nearest fibre).
I told them to stick it. Cancelled my contract. I now have no landline. I never had 'Broadband' (Ofcom consider you need >10Mbs to partake of the digital economy). BT didn't care.
2027 seems an awful long way away. But something has to change for us country folk.!
For clarity, and to stop spawn of discussion on the facts:
1) Current EE Data Protection DIRECTIVE (1995) is implemented in UK via UK Data Protection (1998)
2) New EU General Data Protection REGULATION applies to all EU (and EEA) countries, directly, from May 25th this year.
3) UK, after Brexit, is planning to continue to 'apply' GDPR requirements via the UK Data Protection Bill currently doing the approval rounds. This Bill will cover areas where GDPR allows member states to choose their own rules (i.e. Security, Defence etc) AND where states can implement GDPR flexibly (such as age of children, 13 versus 16 etc).
4) When it comes to personal data used for marketing rules, EU Privacy DIRECTIVE is implemented in UK via Privacy & Electronic Communications Regulation (PECR) (2003).
5) EU is planning to update ePrivacy DIRECTIVE to be a new EU ePrivacy REGUALTION later this year.
You may all wake up now.
Let me correct you.
Using a computer is a KNOWN risk (do not even think of trying to tell me Linux is 100% secure - would only prove your own incompetence)
Using an OS where the manufacturer has stated "No more patches" is more of a risk than using an OS where the OS says "Patches available ASAP". Anyone choosing to use an unsupported OS should accept the responsibility of doing so.Thats was my point. (Why did you have to drop to the daft level of slagging of Windows?)
FTFY
UK had a data protection act prior to the EU DPD. In fact - both those pieces of legislation are basically trying to implement a much earlier (1940/50's?) UN human rights clause.
Leaving EU will not affect UK DP abilities or how good/bad we are perceived by non-EU. With or without GDPR.
As for the EU - if they choose to cut of the outside world that is their choice.
In fact - I am not even sure about using for ID either ....
Why? - you can't change it. Easy to cross link information about me if all my access is based on fixed Bio facts.
That said - it isn't as if there are big data breeches every day where someone could start to collect info on me....
Oh.
so what.
If BT are refusing to do anything (they are) about Direct Exchange Lines (that apparently cannot be upgrade/moved/replaced/updated/FTTP/FTTC'd etc) then 2.8Mbs is all I will ever get.
Don't care about FTTP - just bandwidth.
FYI: I do not get a reduction in cost either. 2.8Mbs or 28Mbs = same price.
Maybe OFCOM should introduce a per/Mbs charging scheme ?
Get your facts right.
The BBC report DOES NOT say money was paid away - only that someone accessed an account of a colleague.
Paying away means setting up new payee - which requires a Chip'n'Pin verification phase.
So - if I have access to your mobile phone and can convince someone at the bank to change the log-on credentials.....I have access to the same information as if I intercepted your printed statements.
Please - there is a weak spot in ID reset procedure, but nothing here indicates a flaw in paying away. Unless you have additional information ?
Thanks
I live just outside a metropolis - Cambridge.
I live in an area BT are allowed to colour 'green' as they have enabled us for superfast broadband.
Guess how fast my broadband is.
1.5Mb/s on a dry day. And no-one offers unlimited 4G anymore.
Hey - Maybe BT can buy a mobile phone company and offer a fixed price 4G contract to all those customers otherwise stuffed by them when it comes to cabled Broadband.
Now there's a thought....