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Openreach, the BT-owned firm that manages the UK's broadband infrastructure, has vowed to introduce "ultrafast" internet connections to three million premises by 2020. The company said it was accelerating its plan to run fibre connections directly to homes and businesses. It will increase internet speeds from 24 megabits a second under superfast broadband to 100 megabits. The first phase will begin this year, targeting eight cities across the UK.
[...] Too little, too late. That is how BT's many critics will characterise the plan to bring full fibre connections into as many as 10 million homes by 2025. They have always argued that the UK should have opted long ago for a national future-proof fibre-to-the-home network. Instead, BT's approach has been to lay fibre to cabinets on the street and then rely on good old copper cables to take broadband into the home.
[...] with the government switching tack and insisting "full fibre" is now the answer, BT has seen the light - though as its statement makes clear the speed of the rollout will depend on an "acceptable" return on its investment.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by looorg on Sunday February 04 2018, @09:11PM (2 children)
One is left to wonder for what they need this high speed. Isn't it the same country that wants to ban almost everything online (gambling, porn, streaming ...) and have no encryption. So what do they need the 100 megabit connections for? Except to commit crimes. Seems almost like entrapment to install it. I guess it's easier to build that future dystopian surveillance society if you have good infrastructure in place from the start.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Sunday February 04 2018, @10:29PM (1 child)
It's so Big Brother can look in your bedroom and make sure you're not violating any laws - need high def to determine the legality of some of those limey kinks.
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(Score: 2) by frojack on Monday February 05 2018, @12:38AM
Depends on whether its a symmetrical connection or not.
Government spys can't ex-filtrate your entire hard drive on the typical asymmetric broadband connection. After 20+ years of pushing for lower upload speeds, (to prevent flood attacks - so they claimed) seeing government providers starting to push super fast connection seems suspicious to me.
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