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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: 2, Troll) by realDonaldTrump on Sunday February 04 2018, @11:15PM
I'll tell you, it's no coincidence. The copper, it's already in your house. They plug in the other end, bing bing, bong bong, bing bing bing, you have that Internet. The fiber, it's not in your house, right? So they have to send a guy. He goes in your yard, maybe your dog bites him. He digs a ditch, maybe your tree dies. He goes in your house, maybe he trips over your baby. So many lawsuits, it gets expensive. They're in business to make money. So they put in the fiber cyber where people have a good income. But don't worry, we gave you a raise. In December I signed the most massive Tax Cut in history. Give a big thank you to our guys in Congress, they worked on that one for years.
In April I did a great thing for our Internet companies. Our terrific Congress passed, and I signed, the repeal of Obama's Internet privacy rules. Which made it very hard for our Internet companies to make money, they had to keep so much information secret. Let me tell you, it isn't secret any more. And they can make money from ads and from so many things. You like women, you see ads for women. You like tractors, the ads are for tractors. You see the ads for the things you buy. Big money in that, now our Internet companies can put in better Internet, because they make more money off of it, without charging you more. Everybody wins, see? That's another one our guys in Congress worked very hard on.
And in January I went to Atlanta, I saw some amazing football there. The NCAA, not the NFL. What a difference! They brought me onto the field, we did the national anthem. There’s plenty of space for people to express their views and to protest, but we love our flag and we love our anthem and we want to keep it that way. No kneeling. We want our flag respected. And we want our national anthem respected also. The South is fabulous. They love our anthem and they love me. Even Kendrick Lamar, he gave it his all.
And in Atlanta I took the first step to expand access to broadband internet in rural America so you can compete on a level playing field, which you were not able to do. Not fair. So I made an Executive Order, I said, let's use all viable tools to accelerate the deployment and adoption of affordable, reliable, modern high-speed broadband connectivity in rural America. Part of the mess I inherited from President Obama, 39% of our great rural Americans don't have broadband. That's millions of people. Disgraceful!