Gigabit broadband: First areas to benefit announced
19/03/2021
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The government announces first stages of plans to get superfast broadband to the majority of UK homes.
Get it done just in time for quantum internet to be ready
It escapes that by being irritatingly vague.
A budget has been put aside but there's no deadline and they can cut it whenever they want. A promise that can be changed on a whim.
A budget has been put aside but there's no deadline and they can cut it whenever they want. A promise that can be changed on a whim.
Another moan ?
This is progress, seeing things in terms of 'The Tories' or not, is a bit silly given its decades between Labour Governments.
This is progress, seeing things in terms of 'The Tories' or not, is a bit silly given its decades between Labour Governments.
Of course - this is Spaffer johnson's mob.
Should have voted Corbyn's Labour. Everything would have been nationalised by now with free internet access / broadband to all. Internet is like water. Should be a part of basic human rights. Access to education, new jobs, new opportunity. Sky is the limit.
Want to make people a backward nation?Deprive them of it or make it really expensive so only the Tories and their mates make profits from it
Want to make people a backward nation?Deprive them of it or make it really expensive so only the Tories and their mates make profits from it
So many people agreed with you that we should have voted for Corbyn, and the paradise he promised - much like he explained when he appeared on Iranian TV.
His close association with that country, and the money they paid him, tells you all you need to know as to why he was rejected.
His close association with that country, and the money they paid him, tells you all you need to know as to why he was rejected.
As Maggie said, 'the trouble with socialism is that eventually you run out of other peoples money'. Who would pay for these Utopian schemes, the answer will come to you soon, I'm sure.
Water is only free if you collect it yourself or steal it. However, you might think it's free if someone else is paying for it on your behalf.
As for a backward nation, give people the chance to live off the efforts of others and you'll certainly make at least some of them more backward than ever before.
As for a backward nation, give people the chance to live off the efforts of others and you'll certainly make at least some of them more backward than ever before.
"Originally it had promised to roll out gigabit-speed broadband to every home in Britain by 2025 but that was reduced to 85%"
Why do govts make promises everyone knows they'll break?
Wouldn't it be better if they just said "look, we're going to do our best and we hope for 100%, but this may not be achievable - we'll work towards 100% and keep you all updated"? Surely that's better than lying?
Why do govts make promises everyone knows they'll break?
Wouldn't it be better if they just said "look, we're going to do our best and we hope for 100%, but this may not be achievable - we'll work towards 100% and keep you all updated"? Surely that's better than lying?
That would make them unelectable. We get the politicians we deserve.
Better to say nothing at all and JFDI
It was a post-pandemic reign-in. And I suspect also partly due to BT actually, for once, doing quite well with the rollout. Alt nets are also making good progress.
To that end why throw public money if private is willing to pay.
To that end why throw public money if private is willing to pay.
It will never be 100% by fibre, the cost would be too high.
The first is an aspiration (which could be met eventually by other means such as Starlink) and the second is the figure the experts come back with.
The first is an aspiration (which could be met eventually by other means such as Starlink) and the second is the figure the experts come back with.
Trouble is, if they were more honest and didn't promise 100%, the media would hold that against them too and play on those words in all their articles.
You state that the Government is lying and then in your third paragraph prove they aren't. By giving the 85% estimate they have done exactly what you wanted them to do. Try looking at the 85% figure as being the new 100%.
They make false promises because they expect that when it is found out they will have moved on, or no-one will care enough by then to make a fuss
Politicians present undeliverable policies because too many people judge success by dreamworld expectations.
The primary plan is to run it over poles if there is no underground trunking. If they can’t push the cable through they will firstly want to run the cables on poles as it’s much cheaper
Because the electorate ignore their lies and re-elect them on a first past the post system which means a majority can be achieved from a minority of the votes cast. The lesson they learn is that they can lie as much as they want and get away with it.
I'm duplicating this comment because it'll be lost in the stand alone post but: the people who run the backbone so to speak, are an organisation called 'Openreach' (BT in disguise) something that generations of back room bungs and jobs for the lads to its regulator OFCOM has ensured that it's not getting really getting better any time soon.
Because English voters are stupid and will keep voting Conservative as long as they keep repeating the same lies over and over again to make them feel good.
"bUt laBoUr"
"bUt laBoUr"
Sadly, that's how all political parties work. They make grand (but often impractical) promises in the hope of getting into or staying in power, then fail to deliver. I always bear that in mind whenever they make any promises. Remember Boris's infamous bus advert during the brexit campaign?
To get you to vote for them
Why? Pick a headline:
"We'll roll out gigabit-speed broadband to every home in Britain by 2025"
""We hope for 100%, but this may not be achievable - we'll work towards 100% and keep you all updated"
"We'll roll out gigabit-speed broadband to every home in Britain by 2025"
""We hope for 100%, but this may not be achievable - we'll work towards 100% and keep you all updated"
They call it 'gigabit-capable' because they know that most will not be able to afford a gigabit service. Most will have to settle for cheaper packages giving much lower speeds. The digital divide continues!
Stop voting for them, it terrifies the Westminster bubble to think that no-one actually cares for them!!
You mean TORY GOVERNMENTS make promises everyone knows they will break !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Imagine being able to stream BBCs Mrs Brown Boys on a 1GB connection? It still won't be funny.
Removed
will it not be over, quicker though?
I think I'd prefer to watch a 'buffering' screen.
100%...I worry for people's mental health who find it funny...and actually find it offensively un-funny...it could be cost cut with 0 pain to 99% of the TV aduience!
What you don't realise is the more you keep giving your view on this programme the more people will want to watch it Brendan O'Carroll rubbing his hands on his way to the bank.
It'd still be ******* **** - ok, the odd swear word is "funny" in the right context, but the persistence is just irritating
I find the programme quite nostalgic. I haven't come across that sort of humour since I left primary school.
I'd rather watch the Test Card than mbb!
10 million+ disagree and in Toryland the market rules.
100% agree, I think some people at the BBC think all men in drag are always funny or entertaining.
It's not 1973 anymore.
It's not 1973 anymore.
Should have voted Corbyn's Labour. Everything would have been nationalised by now with free internet access / broadband to all. Internet is like water. Should be a part of basic human rights. Access to education, new jobs, new opportunity. Sky is the limit.
Want to make people a backward nation?Deprive them of it or make it really expensive so only the Tories and their mates make profits from it
Want to make people a backward nation?Deprive them of it or make it really expensive so only the Tories and their mates make profits from it
Remembering Cameron's promise 11 years ago, which amounted to nothing but hot air. In fairness all parties are to blame for this, 20 years ago they should have been on top of this. But like many of us working with computers back in the mid 90's. Many thought the internet would amount to nothing, why is was ignored. India puts us to shame with broadband and coding, something we should have done.
"But like many of us working with computers back in the mid 90's. Many thought the internet would amount to nothing"
I quite literally, cannot stop laughing at that comment.
I quite literally, cannot stop laughing at that comment.
"India puts us to shame with broadband and coding" - nonsense on both counts!
British Telecom were "on top of this" over 30 years ago, in the 1980s, with their own factories making fibre internet equipment. Then the Thatcher government decided that they wanted to break BT's monopoly, so they ordered a halt while they invited rivals to lay fibre in urban areas, and forbade BT from using its fibre network for providing services like video streaming. It did not go well ...
Think John Major is normally thought to be at blame for this. He didn't allow BT to roll out a big fibre Grid (for cable TV) because he wanted competition with the American cable TV companies. I think for some remote areas there may be cheaper ways to do this (i.e statelote internet)
India would only shame us on lower wages, if that's desirable...
Will this also help the roll out of 5G phone system in these areas? Much of the area mentioned has little or no 3G coverage!
Not much if at all. That's more limited by lack of profitability (too little chargeable usage) and the local (or not so local) NIMBYs who don't want masts anywhere near or even visible to them.
"Originally it had promised to roll out gigabit-speed broadband to every home in Britain by 2025 but that was reduced to 85%"
Why do govts make promises everyone knows they'll break?
Wouldn't it be better if they just said "look, we're going to do our best and we hope for 100%, but this may not be achievable - we'll work towards 100% and keep you all updated"? Surely that's better than lying?
Why do govts make promises everyone knows they'll break?
Wouldn't it be better if they just said "look, we're going to do our best and we hope for 100%, but this may not be achievable - we'll work towards 100% and keep you all updated"? Surely that's better than lying?
The track record suggests that lying is much more likely.
£350 million to NHS ring any bells ?
"look, we're going to do our best and we hope for 100%, but this may not be achievable - we'll work towards 100% and keep you all updated" doesn't win you any votes.
We are in a pandemic and spending is througfh the roof, no surprise that priorities change.
It's Boris.
They opened their mouths. That's when I knew they were lying.
If they weren't lying then they would be woefully ill-informed, neither of which is a desirable attribute to govern the U.K.
Unfortunately for us were lumbered with them for now.
Unfortunately for us were lumbered with them for now.
More promises. The brutal truth for rural areas is that if the private sector can't see a profit, it won't happen. It needs government funding. You cannot both supply a social function and reward shareholders.
"Originally it had promised to roll out gigabit-speed broadband to every home in Britain by 2025 but that was reduced to 85%"
Why do govts make promises everyone knows they'll break?
Wouldn't it be better if they just said "look, we're going to do our best and we hope for 100%, but this may not be achievable - we'll work towards 100% and keep you all updated"? Surely that's better than lying?
Why do govts make promises everyone knows they'll break?
Wouldn't it be better if they just said "look, we're going to do our best and we hope for 100%, but this may not be achievable - we'll work towards 100% and keep you all updated"? Surely that's better than lying?
Nobody deserves this lot surely
No, we get the ones on offer - or some of them. We cannot choose the best people for the job, only those offering themselves for election, and once we vote they forget all about us for 5 yrs anyway.
Swiss-style direct democracy looks more and more attractive every year; has to be better than the same old, same old, for decades.
Swiss-style direct democracy looks more and more attractive every year; has to be better than the same old, same old, for decades.
Imagine being able to stream BBCs Mrs Brown Boys on a 1GB connection? It still won't be funny.
Removed
"Every home in Britain promised fast broadband by 2025" Pah! All areas named are in England. Scotland is still part of UK and although we are inundated by leaflets promising this when we enquire we are not eligible being in rural Galloway. Sending these leaflets is a form of Chinese water torture!
Let's see how this roll out of connectivity can rendered locally ineffective by the parochial concerns of those in power at Holyrood. Already Scottish politicians have weakened the 2021 UK wide 'moment in time' census collection, postponing collection of data in Scotland for 12 months. The century of regularity 'instant in time' UK data undermined. Will Scot's be any better connected by then ?
Every home in Britain??? Don’t see any areas in the devolved nations in the early list.
There is not a chance that target will be met. It will involve visiting every premises in the UK to replace their copper wires with fibre and the admin of that alone is going to take years to sort out never mind the time it will take the engineers to do their part
You can use cheap 5G modems now to connect to a fibre-enabled tower – it bypasses the problem you correctly identify. Wired connections would take decades!
Should have voted Corbyn's Labour. Everything would have been nationalised by now with free internet access / broadband to all. Internet is like water. Should be a part of basic human rights. Access to education, new jobs, new opportunity. Sky is the limit.
Want to make people a backward nation?Deprive them of it or make it really expensive so only the Tories and their mates make profits from it
Want to make people a backward nation?Deprive them of it or make it really expensive so only the Tories and their mates make profits from it
Of course there is, Comrade . In the mouse trap. Free cheese for all.
Another manifesto promise broken. Ah well, who cares, the Tories certainly don’t.
Unfortunately the Tory manifesto failed to mention spending on a global pandemic which came just 14 months later. If it had, then there wouldn't be anything for superfast internet.
Boohoo, will Labour losers ever stop crying? Is there any reprieve for your failed party? Will you ever admit you were led by a man who was completely beyond his depth? I guess the only reason you lost the worst results in a century is because the Tories were keeping you down.
What about the real rural areas that have next to nothing speed's like up to 1.5mb on a good day if were lucky ????????????????????????????????????? promises promises promises
It's always the same. Broadband speeds get updated, 90% of the country get connected, IT firms (thinking they are clever) make their websites more complicated, and the 10 in rural areas that are not connected (we've not even got 3G let alone 5G) get left behind.
So much for levelling up!
So much for levelling up!
Starlink, Oneweb?
These are rural areas: Cambridgeshire, Cornwall, Cumbria, Dorset, Durham, Essex, Northumberland, South Tyneside and Tees Valley and later: Shropshire, Suffolk, Worcestershire, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.
At least in most part!
At least in most part!
That's actually better than what I had (it was about 3 miles to the cabinet so even "high speed broadband" was about what you describe), and now have fttp. At least some rural areas are getting done. Prior to fttp I used mobile broadband (expensive, and has data limit), but that used to lose the signal multiple times per day).
We were in the same boat. Small village with awful speeds but two weeks ago we got fibre to the premises and now we're enjoying 500Mbts.
It's taken 10 years but it's definitely happening!
It's taken 10 years but it's definitely happening!
I'm not even in a rural area and struggle to get 1.5mb most of the time! All the providers are selective as to where they will install and only if enough of an update in the area - never going to happen as the end of the road already has fibre so don't need to sign up for a new scheme leaving the rest of us stuck with rubbish broadband
Not any problem they did my area. All they do is put the fibres along the telegraph poles, or ducts where it goes underground. The 'lie' it is hard to do rural areas is rubbish. It is a con to avoid doing it where there is less money to be made. I now have fibre to the house. Easy simple. When a local group of active bureaucracy coping, busting, types got the available grants, conditions, sorted.
Oneweb and starlink?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlink
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlink
Rural is getting more more in terms of upgrades that suburbs. People forget that BT had some 100's of millions 7 or 8 years ago to bring rural areas to 10Mbs minium. In many cases they just did FTTP so 330Mbs. Meanwhile suburbs such as mine are left with flakey and oversubsribed FTTC and no plan for anything else. Of course the 50Mbps or so I get is better that some rural areas but not enough.
Same here in rural Scotland. 1.3mb so long as it's not raining. I wish they would sort out the percentage that current don't get superfast broadband before they start bragging about who's going to get the super duper speedy stuff.
Have you looked at 4G internet? We were in a similar position and went for a package from EE which, with an external aerial, improved speeds to between 20-50Mbps and very reliable. If I were to do the same now I would buy a third party 4G router and insert an unlimited sim from the provider that has the strongest signal in the area. LA grants might help with the cost but all depends on 4G strength
You could always move to a city and get polluted, blighted with traffic noise and stabbed in the street if broadband speed is that important.
Move. You chose the rural place for a reason, wouldn't do yo go digging up everything.
"Originally it had promised to roll out gigabit-speed broadband to every home in Britain by 2025 but that was reduced to 85%"
Why do govts make promises everyone knows they'll break?
Wouldn't it be better if they just said "look, we're going to do our best and we hope for 100%, but this may not be achievable - we'll work towards 100% and keep you all updated"? Surely that's better than lying?
Why do govts make promises everyone knows they'll break?
Wouldn't it be better if they just said "look, we're going to do our best and we hope for 100%, but this may not be achievable - we'll work towards 100% and keep you all updated"? Surely that's better than lying?
And for millions we still can't get local BBC tv in HD.
Ah, so there is a silver lining :)
Like the rest of us Local TV is not HD as local areas drop off the HD carrier to transmit local programmes.
Why do you need to? It's at the resolution that all channels were broadcast in 10 years ago and we all coped perfectly well.
And difficult to get Radio 3 and 4 in some parts of Devon. Radio Gaga, no problem.
Yes, but that's not because of a lack of fibre, it's BBC priorities. Maybe now they're getting the old to pay for a TV licence it will become possible (unless of course the revenue is already earmarked for a pay rise to the talent and/or to sort out their gender pay gap, which costs a lot when dealing with lofty salaries).
They literally announced regionalised BBC One HD just yesterday.
Do keep up.
Do keep up.
Only £1.2bn available until 2024 just shows the lack of vision this sorry Government has. A mere drop in the ocean in the grand scheme of things, a rounding error.
Still we can get that comms room fitted out seemingly in no time at all, for a mere £2.6m, flags and all.........
Still we can get that comms room fitted out seemingly in no time at all, for a mere £2.6m, flags and all.........
Hampshire already has super fast broadband ? Both of NATS’ ATC main hubs are based there. You’re not going to route infrastructure to there alone, what would be the point ?
How representative of the actuality is the article first image? Some people will think the whole thing's worth doing just for the light show - as we used to say "Far Out - Man!"
What about the real rural areas that have next to nothing speed's like up to 1.5mb on a good day if were lucky ????????????????????????????????????? promises promises promises
Maybe don't live in the absolute middle of nowhere? The idea that you have some entitlement to instant communication just because is ridiculous.
There's pluses and minuses to living in the country as there are in urban environments - e.g. houses are generally cheaper in the 'country' so perhaps you should expect less infrastructure, etc..
Did you geniuses not read the article? The areas mentioned ARE rural!
Agreed, if a website is too slow to load not because of internet speed but because of bad design I'll simply find another one. Things like do you want to subscribe/give opinion/take a survey etc. I also think auto playing videos are the spawn of Satan.
In Africa they have built networks based on old WiFi router's and tin cans to direct the signal. It can reach 5 miles by line of sight.
Try looking for inventive solutions.
Try looking for inventive solutions.
Are you serious?! Website's aren't making their websites slow on purpose you're obviously just visiting ones with 1000s of ads/trackers. Use incognito mode or ad blockers and you'll see how "slow" the average website actually is
Its poor programming tht does not consider the user on low grade signal as they think everyone they know has superfast broadband
It will get done, so long as there is a guaranteed profit for millionaires.
We don't live in a communist country, and companies are not charities, so yes, someone will make a profit. You get paid to work don't you? Isn't that you making a 'profit'?
Profit should be a goal, not a dirty word.
Profit should be a goal, not a dirty word.
No doubt yet another justification for our internet service providers to charge us an arm and leg for the privilege to access it along with their regular price rises.
We have already had enough price hikes this year, council tax, utility bills etc
We have already had enough price hikes this year, council tax, utility bills etc
So don't have it then. And obviously you are ASSUMING there will be price hikes, even though no pricing has been announced.
Jeez, some people just cannot be happy.
Jeez, some people just cannot be happy.
Then just use your phone for internet access, the prices of mobile connectivity are tumbling!
Unless of course you live in Glastonbury where the council have banned 5G because it is has been taken over by conspiracy theorists!
Unless of course you live in Glastonbury where the council have banned 5G because it is has been taken over by conspiracy theorists!
It is a "utility" when you want to complain about poor service, yet it's one which you think can be provided for free. Notwithstanding, that it gives access to products and services that earlier generations couldn't even dream of, let alone take for granted.
We could be sitting here with free nationalised broadband by now if people voted differently (albeit I am sure there would have been tax hikes elsewhere to compensate).
On the website it is £50 for 500mbps and £60 for 1gbps. Virgin Media is roughly the same. If copper goes though, you'll get a 50mpbs for about £20 a month ish. not breaking the bank really, but that is faster and cheaper than my full speeed 'up to 70mbps' 30mpbs connection in have now, in the middle of Cramlington.
Considerer yourself lucky! In the US your broadband has data caps.
Ofcom have just given Openreach permission to charge what they want for ISPs that are offering the fastest connections for the next 10 years.
In my area Talk-talk were charging 34.50 pm, for 27Mb Sometimes)over Openreach aluminium cable.
Virgin put in FTTP, 54Mb stable for £33 pm, with 3 months free, + paid early disconnect charges. for TT.
Installed last August, nothing to be paid until April, when it is £9, then £33 fixed til the end of 2 year contract.
TT wtas unreliable, but only because they had to rely on Openreach.
Virgin put in FTTP, 54Mb stable for £33 pm, with 3 months free, + paid early disconnect charges. for TT.
Installed last August, nothing to be paid until April, when it is £9, then £33 fixed til the end of 2 year contract.
TT wtas unreliable, but only because they had to rely on Openreach.
That's great it's coming to Northumberland. We're normally the last people to get anything - and so it's a welcome change.
Appropriately, Cragside should be the first to get it. Amazing place.
In my (reasonably built up) part of Wiltshire we're still waiting for a mobile phone signal. And I don't mean 4G, I mean a...phone...signal.
Once Northumberland gets the fast broadband the next step is to move in the people who will use it!
We live in semi-rural Northumberland, near Amble; and get almost 80Mbps with FTTC. I do however presume more rural areas around here, struggle to get anywhere near that...
You live in a beautiful place the internet is less necessary
You should be very happy about some of the things that you haven't got!
That would make them unelectable. We get the politicians we deserve.
Why is it everytime England arranges something that is devolved in Wales, Scotland and NI, people jump out complaining that it's "All England". Yes, that's what devolution means!
Scotland "claim" to already have 100% superfast broadband (scotlandsuperfast.com says "Superfast broadband is reaching 100% of premises in Scotland")
England has over 24 of the 29 million homes in the UK.
Scotland "claim" to already have 100% superfast broadband (scotlandsuperfast.com says "Superfast broadband is reaching 100% of premises in Scotland")
England has over 24 of the 29 million homes in the UK.
My thoughts exactly. Nothing for the devolved regions- probably find it becomes a devolved matter in a few months
Depends if it is controlled by Westminster or the devolved parliaments.
Disappointed- nothing in Wales!!
Excellent news but some are still looking for negatives. I feel sorry for them if they’re glass is always half empty.
They don't have glass, they have copper... and some of the poor sods have uluminium.
Get your wallet out and fill up their glass then.
I 'feel sorry for you' being uneducated....
This is the measure of how stupid and ignorant the occupant of No10 is. This is a million times more important that any HS2 yet what is the priority?. Get the idiot out.
You are deriding the last in a long line of occupants of No.10. All of whom have done the same. Who would you replace him with? The shower on the other side of the house who can't even add... yes I am thinking of a certain MP
They are both high priority for different reasons. You can't board a train at your nearest backbone node, and you can't surf the internet from the nearest ballast!
If you're already getting fast internet, but have to endure a slow crowded train journey, they will say HS2 is a million times more important than any internet speed upgrade project!
If you're already getting fast internet, but have to endure a slow crowded train journey, they will say HS2 is a million times more important than any internet speed upgrade project!
Westminster doing its best to bolster a sense of equality within the Union by leaving Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales until last.
Boris will then be wondering why there is so much support for devolution.
Boris will then be wondering why there is so much support for devolution.
Split Openreach out of BT
This is absolutely essential. Without it, we'll just get more of the same.
IF we had a COMPETENT goverment and BT were not so UTTERLY USELESS,
we would have had this for the LAST TEN YEARS,
like numerous other countries !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
we would have had this for the LAST TEN YEARS,
like numerous other countries !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Only £1.2bn available until 2024 just shows the lack of vision this sorry Government has. A mere drop in the ocean in the grand scheme of things, a rounding error.
Still we can get that comms room fitted out seemingly in no time at all, for a mere £2.6m, flags and all.........
Still we can get that comms room fitted out seemingly in no time at all, for a mere £2.6m, flags and all.........
My point was this government can make speedy decisions and fund them on follies yet can't manage to spend a relatively modest sum on national infrastructure (that would likely pay itself back many times over through increased productivity).
Well it is in comparison with the spend on HS2 and the fibre will start to deliver something worthwhile to (probably) a similar number of people sooner and in the long term far many more people than HS2 will, even if they extended it into Scotland.
Don't have internet? Are you serious?
It's a neccesarry utility now.
It's a neccesarry utility now.
Of course there will be price hikes. How else do you pay shareholder dividends and company bonuses? Look at any other nationalised utility, including BT.
Then don't read those comments then.
OH yes it has.
Some people learn from experience.
Openreach were determined to get rid of the price cap, so they must be planning to increase the price. The others who use openreach's network will obviously have to increase their prices too, when that happens. If they don't, they'll loose money, and no business is going to do that.
i live in rural scotland get 300kb on a good day and get decent phone signal too if i drive a couple of miles , hoping we get a turn soon but pretty sure it won't happen
I live a horrible city in England. I get fast broadband and a great signal.
BUT, I also get litter, feral children loitering outside and abuse from the parents if I ask the children not to keep throwing their rubbish into my garden, car vandalised, traffic fumes as my road is a rat run.
Oh, and neighbours that think lock-down does not apply to any of them.
Want to swap?
BUT, I also get litter, feral children loitering outside and abuse from the parents if I ask the children not to keep throwing their rubbish into my garden, car vandalised, traffic fumes as my road is a rat run.
Oh, and neighbours that think lock-down does not apply to any of them.
Want to swap?
Might want to ask your local MSP why you're only getting 300kb, they are saying that the Digital Scotland Superfast Broadband (DSSB) programme successfully achieved its aim of delivering access to broadband speeds of 24Mbps to 95% of premises in Scotland in 2017. Their tagline now reads Superfast broadband is reaching 100% of premises in Scotland. 300kb isn't what I call superfast!
Westminster doing its best to bolster a sense of equality within the Union by leaving Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales until last.
Boris will then be wondering why there is so much support for devolution.
Boris will then be wondering why there is so much support for devolution.
It's weird how when it comes to actual voting people support devolution and show polls to be wrong.
We got FTTP last year and speed rarely drops below 200mb so nearly there. We also live in a leafy rural area of Suffolk. High BB speed, low Covid rate and beautiful fresh air.
Come on, what's the catch?
Thank you Margo, how's Gerry, Tom and Barbara.......??
I think that is 200Mb.
We had Virgin installed all around our village and over quite a wide area around 2yrs ago, (Yorkshire) they then had a Government grant towards the ground works etc, before that it was BT at a snail speed of 3mb/s, now we get up to 800mbs with an average after doing weekly speed checks of around 750mb/s through Virgin, it's not expensive compared to paying BT and Sky TV.
It will become expensive since they've got you over a barrel. I can only use Virgin if I want more than 5mb/s. I'm also aware of a block of flats who only have Virgin connection. They wanted £70 a month for cheapest package.
Once the introductory cheap first year ends the price will double. If you want to cancel it then good luck trying to through to them.
Likewise, our village worked with Gigaclear back in 2012 to install fibre to every house. Only 7 miles from Oxford, but with BT it used to be around 0.7 - 2 Mb (depending on how far you were from the exchange), now it averages 700Mb in both directions bursting to nearly 1GB at times. Completely unlimited data.
We all needed this a decade ago.
A decade ago we were advertised 10Mbit/s and, on average, got 5.2Mbit/s. We have already come a long way! A private company is laying fibre around here with gigabit speeds for roughly the same cost as the major operators want for 64Mbit/s.
No mention of the SNP brand and roll out being four years late?
So 20% of the budget released to cover 80% of the time available to the target.....
Yet another Boris broken promise of jam tomorrow on it's way.
As reliable as his year old oven ready Care System Plan.
Yet another Boris broken promise of jam tomorrow on it's way.
As reliable as his year old oven ready Care System Plan.
Gigabit broadband: First areas to benefit announced
Yeah, we all love bread and circuses, moving pictures - you know the stuff.
But so much NOT announced, eh BBC ?
How usual.
Yeah, we all love bread and circuses, moving pictures - you know the stuff.
But so much NOT announced, eh BBC ?
How usual.
It'll still take 20mins for HYS moderators to post my comments....
Here to, but I am in Wales, either broadband is poor here or Moderator has a major hang up with Welsh.
Posted some criticism of Corbyn last year, have had very few posts removed recently, and many of those reinstated when questioned, but 40mins + to have posts on BBC Sports 'double checked' and a little less here.
Broadband is difficult due to topography here, but Moderator has marked my card
Posted some criticism of Corbyn last year, have had very few posts removed recently, and many of those reinstated when questioned, but 40mins + to have posts on BBC Sports 'double checked' and a little less here.
Broadband is difficult due to topography here, but Moderator has marked my card
Irrelevant.
South Korea has fantastic gigabite service pretty much all around the country, and it's taken for granted.
This is an important step for the UK development, so this is really good news. No surprise that our topography etc will be particularly challenging to some more remote communities.
This is an important step for the UK development, so this is really good news. No surprise that our topography etc will be particularly challenging to some more remote communities.
So does some urban parts of India. Students come from places like Israel, South Korea, India etc to study and find it surprising that the UK has such low internet speeds. They realise what they took for granted in their country, and assumed they would get the same, if not even higher speeds in the UK!
And Japan
So why did ukgov / biz decide on copper and not fibre?
Fibres been about for decades.
Going copper, rip out copper and equipment, lay down fibre and new equipment was in long term a waste of money.
UKpublic will end up paying twice.
Fibres been about for decades.
Going copper, rip out copper and equipment, lay down fibre and new equipment was in long term a waste of money.
UKpublic will end up paying twice.
Korean and Japanese populations live in a very condensed space. It's easy to connect hundreds of people in one instance as they're all living in the same apartment block. UK it's the case of digging up entire pavements and individually connecting up fibre to homes. Not making excuses, just we shouldn't compare ourselves to some Asian countries.
Should have voted Corbyn's Labour. Everything would have been nationalised by now with free internet access / broadband to all. Internet is like water. Should be a part of basic human rights. Access to education, new jobs, new opportunity. Sky is the limit.
Want to make people a backward nation?Deprive them of it or make it really expensive so only the Tories and their mates make profits from it
Want to make people a backward nation?Deprive them of it or make it really expensive so only the Tories and their mates make profits from it
Remembering Cameron's promise 11 years ago, which amounted to nothing but hot air. In fairness all parties are to blame for this, 20 years ago they should have been on top of this. But like many of us working with computers back in the mid 90's. Many thought the internet would amount to nothing, why is was ignored. India puts us to shame with broadband and coding, something we should have done.
Many did think the internet would amount to nothing why supermarkets and many others were very slow with online sales. People laughed at Amazon selling books, the bookshops all laughed. HMV who were selling DVD;'s out of Jersey for tax reasons were not worried. I am not talking about me, I knew it would be huge but many ignored it. Don't misunderstand my point.
Quite, he shouldn't have been in IT then because we saw coming back in the 80s with early networks.
Early 90s maybe. The first version of Microsoft Internet Explorer was released in August 1995, before that, Microsoft thought the Internet would amount to nothing.
I felt the same. If someone thought the Internet was a flash in the pan?............I question why that person was even working in IT. No wonder the IT systems in most companies are still a load of c***p.
Why, for the average joe that would probably be true. The internet may have been around for years by then, but the WWW (which is what people recognise as the internet) was only just getting off the ground. If you don't remember using Mosaic or even Netscape, you were not there either!
Easy to amuse you.
I guess you'll be younger than 30, then. Before you were born, we were allowed to have real jokes.
Bill Gates wrote in one of his books that the WWW wasn’t going to amount to much. By the time the book got published it was clear he had got things very wrong. The book was withdrawn and a revised edition published. But there are still a lot of early versions out there.
The headline for this news item is "the majority of homes in the UK", but every single specified area is in England. Presumably the 15% of homes that the (Westminster) government have allowed BT to wriggle out of will be in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
24 out of 29 million UK homes are in England. Therefore the majority of homes in the UK are in England.
Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland have each voted to "go it alone" with devolution, don't keep asking England to pay for stuff or grumble when England only policies are introduced!
Scotland? Check scotlandsuperfast.com
Wales? Check gov.wales/broadband-in-wales
NI? Check nidirect.gov.uk
Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland have each voted to "go it alone" with devolution, don't keep asking England to pay for stuff or grumble when England only policies are introduced!
Scotland? Check scotlandsuperfast.com
Wales? Check gov.wales/broadband-in-wales
NI? Check nidirect.gov.uk
or maybe it's a devolved power? None of the areas listed benefit from a Barnet formula boost & are almost always last in the queue for investment or infrastructure spend.
No HS2 in the South West or East Anglia; nor Cumbria & Northumbria, which are not part of the north (who knew it ends at Leeds), so don't see HS2 either. Scotland, Wales & NI can't always be first, or rather first after London.
No HS2 in the South West or East Anglia; nor Cumbria & Northumbria, which are not part of the north (who knew it ends at Leeds), so don't see HS2 either. Scotland, Wales & NI can't always be first, or rather first after London.
It will get done, so long as there is a guaranteed profit for millionaires.
Creating a national infrastructure helps small companies to profit, so put the national investment in to 100% of the country, don't leave it to profiteers who won't finish the job once the profit margin runs out.
Getting paid to work isn't necessarily making a profit, the profit is what's left over after the bills and for a lot of us that's nothing.
Profit is just a word but seeking to increase it by making employees poorer is unacceptable.
It's always the same. Broadband speeds get updated, 90% of the country get connected, IT firms (thinking they are clever) make their websites more complicated, and the 10 in rural areas that are not connected (we've not even got 3G let alone 5G) get left behind.
So much for levelling up!
So much for levelling up!
I thought it had been added to the, ever growing, list of human rights!
The idea that everyone lives in the same place is ridiculous. Perhaps they are a farmer, vet, utility worker. Access to good communications is a necessity in the modern age hence why the Government have been trying to push the broadband rollout.
That argument didn’t work when all those who holed up in compact towns weren’t allowed out. Then it was stampy feet it’s not fair I haven’t got a garden I want to drive miles into the country
What makes you think that it's only people "in the absolute middle of nowhere" that are in this situation. There are towns and businesses in rural areas who are in this situation. Openreach are required to provide connections to everyone, but because even dial-up is still considered to be a connection, they get away with denying people an adequate connection. Should everyone abandon rural areas?
Should have voted Corbyn's Labour. Everything would have been nationalised by now with free internet access / broadband to all. Internet is like water. Should be a part of basic human rights. Access to education, new jobs, new opportunity. Sky is the limit.
Want to make people a backward nation?Deprive them of it or make it really expensive so only the Tories and their mates make profits from it
Want to make people a backward nation?Deprive them of it or make it really expensive so only the Tories and their mates make profits from it
It's a start, but of course it won't stop people moaning.
Meanwhile I look forward to my ultra-fast broadband connection when it comes. If I get it before the next general election, then who knows? I might actually vote to reelect the government that finally got off its backside to do something about the UK's broadband situation!
Meanwhile I look forward to my ultra-fast broadband connection when it comes. If I get it before the next general election, then who knows? I might actually vote to reelect the government that finally got off its backside to do something about the UK's broadband situation!
If people have issues with a service they pay for the they're entitled to moan, you gonna pay extortionate prices for a service you're not getting and be all smiles? More fool you if so.
"Originally it had promised to roll out gigabit-speed broadband to every home in Britain by 2025 but that was reduced to 85%"
Why do govts make promises everyone knows they'll break?
Wouldn't it be better if they just said "look, we're going to do our best and we hope for 100%, but this may not be achievable - we'll work towards 100% and keep you all updated"? Surely that's better than lying?
Why do govts make promises everyone knows they'll break?
Wouldn't it be better if they just said "look, we're going to do our best and we hope for 100%, but this may not be achievable - we'll work towards 100% and keep you all updated"? Surely that's better than lying?
I live less than 4 miles outside of Macclesfield and am still waiting for mains drainage and gas supply............
when you bought the house sadly you forgot the 3 most important matters to consider
Location
Location
Location
Location
Location
Location
You will not get a gas supply now, global warming.
We have no mains drainage or gas - it's brilliant. But, despite a massive internet connection upgrade 5 years ago, it's still rubbish. If you have an important conference, you have to get the rest of the household off the internet and then cross you fingers. What really helps is all the houses they keep building. Just hope they get it right this time - a proper improvement rather than a quick fix.
As always just focussing on the large profitable areas rather than providing a fully inclusive service.
Cornwall, Cumbria, Dorset... did you even read the article?
It's always the same. Broadband speeds get updated, 90% of the country get connected, IT firms (thinking they are clever) make their websites more complicated, and the 10 in rural areas that are not connected (we've not even got 3G let alone 5G) get left behind.
So much for levelling up!
So much for levelling up!
Even though you pay the same taxes, expect less. That sounds fair....
So you think that a connection fast enough to use modern internet services is too much to ask? The money being spent on the gigabit upgrades could be used to add extra boxes to boost the signals in the existing cables, to give an adequate connection in rural areas first. Then upgrade connections for the rest of us. It wouldn't stop the upgrade to gigabit, just delay it a bit.
Not any more, with citydwellers buying holiday homes.
Look at this week's news.
Houses in Cornwall have highest demand, since Covid forced WFH.
Locals are even less likely to afford a home.
Look at this week's news.
Houses in Cornwall have highest demand, since Covid forced WFH.
Locals are even less likely to afford a home.
So maybe tax should also be geographical. Live outside of a suburban toilet- sorry - area and in return to putting up with those who do fleeing every so often to spread Covid and leave their rubbish and excrement everywhere, we can pay 10%. It works it's way up to those who have the advantages of trains in their sewers and can pay 50%! Less infrastructure - less tax.
Whilst many think that this is good news just remember guys that it has to be paid for.
Price rises will be coming from an internet provider near you.
Price rises will be coming from an internet provider near you.
Well even without that happens anyway.
Yay, now we can stream woke programs even faster. Thanks to all of you, we can't even watch the Muppets anymore.
Besides, not really sure we are concentrating on download speeds when uploads are so dire
Besides, not really sure we are concentrating on download speeds when uploads are so dire
That's to do with service providers using ADSL instead of SDSL, which uses more of the bandwidth for downloads than uploads because that's what most people need.
Yeah you can watch the muppets, it's available to all, nothing has been cancelled, you're just a sucker that believes the lies you are told, about 12 episodes have a short disclaimer on them is all, go watch them and enjoy or are you too afraid to be proven wrong?
So much for BRITISH Telecom rolling this out to the UK, no mention of Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland then..?
I live in a remote part of Scotland. A non profit organisation set up to get broadband to remote areas and the signal is bounced around on land based satellite dishes from places that have fibre. I get about 60 mbps for £15 a month. No need for a landline. When a profit builds we get upgraded equipment and faster speeds. Just shows you what can be achieved when the profit motive is removed.
Precisely, leave it to the market.
I live in Orkney and use mobile bb - but I don't get 60mbps for £15 a month!
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Tell me more please - peter.breingan@gmail.com Removed
We have the same - but with fibre brought to the village and then 'bounced around'. A bit more expensive than your example, but very competitive (especially as it is the only possibility of fast broadband).
But the infrastructure behind your broadband only exists due to companies who make a profit.
What's the latency like though? Bandwidth at 60mbps is good going, I'm on FTTC and get less than that, but plenty for a house of three.
Latency, if it's poor it rules out things like online gaming and video chat
Latency, if it's poor it rules out things like online gaming and video chat
So presumably you would also like food to be made available on a profit-free basis. How immoral for companies to make profits on that.
Let's nationalise supermarkets and have a central committee decide which products should be on the shelves.
Let's make them free of charge, with availability based on need not ability to pay. It would be so much fairer.
We could call it the National Food Service.
Let's nationalise supermarkets and have a central committee decide which products should be on the shelves.
Let's make them free of charge, with availability based on need not ability to pay. It would be so much fairer.
We could call it the National Food Service.
im 85 miles from london, a high ranking member of the armed forces, someone that should not be in a position where my own internet is on a par with eritrea, they get 3.5-5mb a second, i get 3-3.5mb/s this is BT in south cambridgeshire.
Wow, we get between 1 and 2.5 Mbps from BT, pay for line rental plus broadband (Rural area) Just hope the upgrade doesn't cost even more!
All of this investment might be a big waste when (if) Elon Musk's Starlink gets going. No more wired connections. Indeed, if you can get a good mobile signal now, then Tesco mobile is doing unlimited data for £30 per month. Get a mobile, set it up as a wireless hotspot and Bob's your fifth uncle half-removed. Wonderful.
What you call "land based satellite dishes" are probably microwave antenna (which are of limited capacity); perfect for remote, low population density areas and for feeding broadcast TV from the studio to a TV antenna in a remote location but about as useful as a chocolate fireguard for internet access in more highly populated areas.
Similarly I'm in North Scotland with a 40 Mbps fixed wireless broadband network funded by community windfarm benefit money. We gave up waiting for BT and the government.
If they could guarantee me 60Mbps, I'd move to a remote part of Scotland today....somewhere on the NW coast would be lovely!?
There is oneweb and starlink rolling out.. Satellite broadband.. No cable required.
Absolutely I'm paying a fortune to Virgin & on average it goes down about once a month
Can you really have a part of Scotland that is TOO remote? :-)
It's always the same. Broadband speeds get updated, 90% of the country get connected, IT firms (thinking they are clever) make their websites more complicated, and the 10 in rural areas that are not connected (we've not even got 3G let alone 5G) get left behind.
So much for levelling up!
So much for levelling up!
Thanks for calling me a genius, my teacher said that I wouldn’t amount to much and now I’ve proved her wrong ??
But there's no confirmation that it will cover more than the biggest towns. Those areas are large. I sincerely hope that they will cover the whole of those areas, and move on to other rural counties. But I, and judging by other comments on here, many others, have doubts.
Huge areas across Scotland - if not the rest of upland Britain - remain mobile blackspots. Not even 2 G signal is obtainable.
Wafting money to a few service providers expecting change is naive. Across most profitable areas connectivity will accelerate away. What need to happen is for full Local grants be given to remote community to connect themselves back, as best they may, using wifi to fibre.
Wafting money to a few service providers expecting change is naive. Across most profitable areas connectivity will accelerate away. What need to happen is for full Local grants be given to remote community to connect themselves back, as best they may, using wifi to fibre.
I would have commented earlier but my broadband is too slow
It's always the same. Broadband speeds get updated, 90% of the country get connected, IT firms (thinking they are clever) make their websites more complicated, and the 10 in rural areas that are not connected (we've not even got 3G let alone 5G) get left behind.
So much for levelling up! Removed
So much for levelling up! Removed
Pardon ?
Can I get mobile phone signal too? Not even 3G, I'll take just a bar.
Split Openreach out of BT
Yes if you're waiting for a refill promised by Boris.
I do wonder if after all this investment, will most of us be using 5G and not bothering with a broadband subscription.
BT Openreach has ignored East London for ages, ludicrously low (sub 5mb) broadband and no road map for improvement. Good news though, tech is leapfrogging the laggards at BT: Three broadband now offers 300mb connection over 5G and Community Fibre/Hyperoptic are putting lots of fibre down that you can wirelessly connect to... Progress at last...
Might be needed for businesses, but for home use, a bit unecessary. Even with 4g, I get 60 mb dowbload, 50mb upload and a ping in the low 20's. You can easily get a 4g router, and it's only about £20 per month unlimited incl call etc. That's before we even look at 5g
I live in rural west Oxfordshire and get 7 mb download and 0.50 upload and pay £35 a month for that to EE. I could go to Gigaclear but that's around £30 a month for 30mb and a lot more for higher speeds and then I still haven't got the free phonecalls. On another note, we also have no bus service.
The first to benefit will be homes and businesses in Cambridgeshire, Cornwall, Cumbria, Dorset, Durham, Essex, Northumberland, South Tyneside and Tees Valley.
The next areas are expected to be Norfolk, Shropshire, Suffolk, Worcestershire, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.
Mark in red the ones in Wales, Scotland & Northern Ireland. Not got a red pen? Don’t matter you don’t need one!
The next areas are expected to be Norfolk, Shropshire, Suffolk, Worcestershire, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.
Mark in red the ones in Wales, Scotland & Northern Ireland. Not got a red pen? Don’t matter you don’t need one!
So one of the largest counties has to wait behind ones that have low populations- obviously the levelling up does not include Lancashire!
Ask the question of those elected to run those other parts of the country then: I know it's only the vanity projects that appeal to the separatist minority in Scotland that get funded, and the last thing that they want is an informed electorate so keep the speeds low & the people stupid.
That is what devolution means! If you need this in Wales lobby the Welsh government, don't complain about an English bias!
Maybe they can fix all the pot holes in our roads while digging up the country to install the super fast broadband cabling?
The cabling is primarily done under the pathways.
Unfortunately that is not their remit, but they will be creating huge numbers of patches in the roads that are prone to becoming potholes
Hampshire already has super fast broadband ? Both of NATS’ ATC main hubs are based there. You’re not going to route infrastructure to there alone, what would be the point ?
Is there anything that -wouldn't- get the professional moaners out on here in force?
I'm really looking forward to the end of lockdown, so that I can get back to going out, enjoying my retirement, rather than ending up looking at the rubbish the "experts" spout on here!
I'm really looking forward to the end of lockdown, so that I can get back to going out, enjoying my retirement, rather than ending up looking at the rubbish the "experts" spout on here!
Another manifesto promise broken. Ah well, who cares, the Tories certainly don’t.
Should have voted Corbyn's Labour. Everything would have been nationalised by now with free internet access / broadband to all. Internet is like water. Should be a part of basic human rights. Access to education, new jobs, new opportunity. Sky is the limit.
Want to make people a backward nation?Deprive them of it or make it really expensive so only the Tories and their mates make profits from it
Want to make people a backward nation?Deprive them of it or make it really expensive so only the Tories and their mates make profits from it
Indeed he was so awful that Johnson could even wallop him
It would be nice just to have fast broadband without daily drop outs and no I do not live in the "sticks" but in a town of 14000
Bread and circuses :)
" C'mon Pelaton !!! " ?? ??
But so little on the Anti-Freedom laws bbc.
" C'mon Pelaton !!! " ?? ??
But so little on the Anti-Freedom laws bbc.
It's always the same. Broadband speeds get updated, 90% of the country get connected, IT firms (thinking they are clever) make their websites more complicated, and the 10 in rural areas that are not connected (we've not even got 3G let alone 5G) get left behind.
So much for levelling up!
So much for levelling up!
And for millions we still can't get local BBC tv in HD.
Remembering Cameron's promise 11 years ago, which amounted to nothing but hot air. In fairness all parties are to blame for this, 20 years ago they should have been on top of this. But like many of us working with computers back in the mid 90's. Many thought the internet would amount to nothing, why is was ignored. India puts us to shame with broadband and coding, something we should have done.
Plenty of areas of the UK already have gigabit broadband but not with BT.
Stop waiting on Openreach. They won't do anything unless their mouths are stuffed full with taxpayer's gold.
Stop waiting on Openreach. They won't do anything unless their mouths are stuffed full with taxpayer's gold.