Tough choices' for UK broadband

[gkd_uk]

The cost of taking fibre-based broadband to every UK home could top £28.8bn, says a report.

Compiled by the government's broadband advisory group, the report details the cost of the different ways to wire the UK for next generation broadband.

Another option, to take the fibres to street-level boxes, would only cost £5.1bn, it said.

Big differences in the cost of updating urban and rural net access will pose difficult choices, says the report.

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[temi]

Virgin some how seem to be managing to bring this technology to homes in densely populated cities.

 

[gkd_uk]

Virgin some how seem to be managing to bring this technology to homes in densely populated cities.

Virgin are ready for the future, it's ADSL providers who will suffer

 

[seogenie12]

geez, gaz prices are in a huge mess up.... especially since they come from saudi arabia, duh doh

 

[neilrbowen]

ADSL does seam to be pretty rubbish really, but there seams to be a bigger problem with makeing websites cope with more visitors than more bandwidth to homes at present, that and contention at exchanges is never a great thing.

 

[Eagle41]

Just as long as tiscali/Nildram aren't involved, it should go smoothly...