The nation is skint yet...

Cressers
Cressers Posts: 1,329
edited December 2010 in The bottom bracket
...money can still be found for this...

http://www.chichester.co.uk/news/nation ... _1_1765294

What part of austerity do they not understand?

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  • morstar
    morstar Posts: 6,190
    Us little hamsters have got to keep that wheel spinning as fast as we can or we might get left behind.

    Super duper fast broadband is just another thing that we can't live without despite the fact everybody did for 99.999999999% of the time humans have walked the earth.
  • Cleat Eastwood
    Cleat Eastwood Posts: 7,508
    Isn't it so we can all claim our benefits in one click in the blink of an eye. The revolution is buffering. :)
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  • Ands
    Ands Posts: 1,437
    It will improve workers' productivity, as faster broadband means time spent surfing the internet during work hours is reduced, thus allowing people more time to do their job. Theoretically, anyhow. :wink:
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  • northernneil
    northernneil Posts: 1,549
    could be a prudent move,

    for the internet of today read railways and motorway of recent history. UK cant afford to be at the end of the queue for what is probably just the start of the technology revolution for the next 20+ years
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    It's investment in infrastructure - stop that and we really will be up s**t creek.
  • finchy
    finchy Posts: 6,686
    +1 to Pross and northernneil.

    Besides, we don't want to be worse than the French at something else, do we?
  • antfly
    antfly Posts: 3,276
    The money is coming from the tv licence fee or something, apparently.
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  • MattC59
    MattC59 Posts: 5,408
    antfly wrote:
    The money is coming from the tv licence fee or something, apparently.
    Some of it is, the rest is coming from private firms.

    As I understand it, this government initiative is to provide superfast broadband to all areas. The problem at the moment is that the likes of BT, Virgin Media etc, are putting infrastructure in to the areas where it is worth while them doing so. Other rural areas aren't covered supported, therefore this project is to fill in the gaps.
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  • MarcBC
    MarcBC Posts: 333
    I live in a small hamlet of 18 houses and the fastest broadband I can get is 512kps! My wife wished to work from home but cannot due to the limited broadband. So she spends £ 30 a day travelling to her office and back.

    A nearish village went to expense of installing a private satellite broadband system. I believe it currently costs each user £ 80 per month to cover the infrastructure and useage costs.

    It would not be a waste of time or money from our perspective.
  • morstar
    morstar Posts: 6,190
    I agree with the arguments from a pure economics perspective but I was thinking from a more bigger picture (arguably idealistic) stand point.
  • cougie
    cougie Posts: 22,512
    Makes sense to me. We cant afford to be left behind with technology !
  • shockedsoshocked
    shockedsoshocked Posts: 4,021
    MattC59 wrote:
    antfly wrote:
    The money is coming from the tv licence fee or something, apparently.
    Some of it is, the rest is coming from private firms.

    As I understand it, this government initiative is to provide superfast broadband to all areas. The problem at the moment is that the likes of BT, Virgin Media etc, are putting infrastructure in to the areas where it is worth while them doing so. Other rural areas aren't covered supported, therefore this project is to fill in the gaps.

    Would have been done years ago by BT if the government had not forced them to give up broadband to other telecommunications companies so they wouldn't have the monopoly on it.

    A bit childish but understandable I'd say.
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  • Le Commentateur
    Le Commentateur Posts: 4,099
    Cressers, it's what's known as investment. It's similar to the kind of thing Rooservelt did in the 30s that got the US out of the mire of the Depression.
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  • rake
    rake Posts: 3,204
    iceland banks and property were also known as investment' :wink:
  • Cressers
    Cressers Posts: 1,329
    Why ponce off the BBC licence fee? The govt should oblige the private telcos to provide a universal service as aprecondition of their licencing agreement.
  • rf6
    rf6 Posts: 323
    Hhmmm, so we can't have an aircraft carrier, but we can upgrade broadband, so people can watch bigger better porn. Great.

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