UK government pushes back full fibre coverage target to 2030:
The UK government has watered down its broadband targets yet again, promising to deliver nationwide gigabit broadband coverage five years later than originally promised.
The Conservative manifesto ahead of the 2019 General Election promised nationwide fibre to the premise (FTTP) coverage by 2025 but the government has since backtracked. The revised target is 85%, with the government also backing down on its commitment to using full fibre.
Meanwhile, just £1.2 billion of £5 billion in promised funding will be delivered during this Parliament.
[...] The government’s Project Gigabit will attempt to cover hard-to-reach areas that aren’t covered by commercial rollouts, but the whitepaper did not provide any concrete details on any new initiatives.
[...] The government’s document also promises nationwide 4G coverage by the same date, citing the pre-existing Shared Rural Network (SRN), and 5G coverage for the majority of the population. EE has already promised to deliver 5G to 90% of the UK’s geographic area by 2028 and it is unclear what further government support will be offered to enhance that figure.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 06 2022, @08:42PM (4 children)
The US pushes 25 meg coverage back to 2040.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 06 2022, @08:55PM (2 children)
2040... that's the year the Supreme Court consists of nine Black woman. In Biden's wet dream.
(Score: 0, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 06 2022, @09:35PM (1 child)
Biden stopped having wet dreams about 50 years ago. When he wakes up wet, it means he has pissed the bed again.
(Score: 0, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 06 2022, @10:18PM
And #45 only wakes up in a wet bed when a teenage Russian prostitute pees on his face.
(Score: 2) by mcgrew on Monday February 07 2022, @02:45PM
Really? I have 100 megs, for another ten bucks I could have a gig, but 50 is sufficient for me.
Impeach Donald Palpatine and his sidekick Elon Vader
(Score: 2) by turgid on Sunday February 06 2022, @08:48PM (3 children)
As it is wont to do. You can always trust a Tory...
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].
(Score: 5, Touché) by Rosco P. Coltrane on Sunday February 06 2022, @09:00PM (1 child)
Yeah, because labor has proved so trustworthy, small wonder they're not still in power.
Lying is a the basic skill of politicians regardless of the side they're on. And lawyers too, which is why you find so many former lawyers among politicians, incidentally.
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Monday February 07 2022, @05:02AM
Yeah well, it seems to be a rewarding endeavor in a Pavlovian sort of way, tell the best lie, and win the prize. Who can argue against success?
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 2) by driverless on Monday February 07 2022, @03:34PM
They need the money to fund all the pissups at No.10...
(Score: 0, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 06 2022, @09:14PM (9 children)
I miss aristarchus, and when all the frontpage stories weren't about the UK. Where is UK, anyway?
(Score: 2) by turgid on Sunday February 06 2022, @09:32PM
The UK? Enjoy it while it lasts.
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 06 2022, @09:36PM
You would enjoy being buggered by a UK.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 06 2022, @10:28PM (2 children)
Formerly part of Europe, now free-floating in the North Atlantic.
(Score: 4, Touché) by kazzie on Monday February 07 2022, @07:46AM (1 child)
It's trying to float free into the North Atlantic, but the Republic of Ireland seems to be an obstacle.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 08 2022, @12:03AM
Sounds like Troubles.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 06 2022, @10:40PM (1 child)
About time for an American, good old-fashioned, Murder-Death-Kill Runaway journal entry, again, eh? And, he can complain about how users in Podunck, Ark. can't get broadband internet access. Oops, did I just dox him?
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday February 07 2022, @04:32AM
He said he's from De Queen, so no, that wasn't a dox. What you did before was.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 06 2022, @11:18PM (1 child)
some countty the muslims bought one block of land at a time
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 06 2022, @11:39PM
I thought it was some country where the citizens sold it out one block of land at a time.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 08 2022, @08:41PM (1 child)
They can't wire that relatively small land mass, but they can use natives' tax money to facilitate the invasion of the UK by monkeys and musrats. Kill the traitors while you still have a some semblance of a nation left.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 08 2022, @08:44PM
https://odysee.com/@ETKE21:8/pbry68WhiteGenocideIsReal-InTheirOwnWords:0 [odysee.com]