By Peter Cochrane
Published: Monday 17 October 2005
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Name
Richard Sarson
Location
Wimbledon
Occupation
Hack
Comment
In the UK, promise and reality are poles apart. My Telewest connection is supposed to give me 10mbs download. I tested ii just now, and all I am getting is 1.1mbs. And I am paying £35 for the privilege.
By the way, I do seem to remember that Peter worked for BT throughout the period when Canada and other countries ramped up their Broadband offerings, which BT was loath to do, because BB threatened its investments in ISDN (128kbs). So, Peter was part of the problem.
Excellent article - well done.
UK's broadband inf...
Steve Berry
Trying not to just bash BT because we can, I think...
Simon
Interesting to see what the UK is doing. (And sayi...
Michael Turner
In the UK, promise and reality are poles apart. M...
Richard Sarson
How many have trouble-free broadband?
A disturb...
Richard
Agree! However the cost of UK "Broadband" was not ...
Anonymous
I have been bilding Broadband to villages around ...
Soren Bergmark
Come on we all know it's not in the Telco's intere...
Anonymous
last time I looked, neither Korea or Japan were in...
gaijin
Peter will be delivering the keynote speech at the...
Lindsey Annison
Richard - slightly OT - but if you're supposed to ...
Steve Berry
Japan did not start with ADSL at 10Mbits/s any mor...
Anonymous
Really? obviously not, your report sounds more lik...
chris
I am very pleased to have read your excellent arti...
Donald Ranasinghe
Right on, Peter! CMA has been criticising dodgy s...
David Harrington
RE: 'By the way, I do seem to remember that Peter ...
Peter Cochrane
No - they started with a huge fibre to the home in...
Peter Cochrane
One of BT's greatest political 'successes' was per...
Tony Parkin
A seriously flawed and mis-reprentative view of th...
Anonymous
Although thought provoking as ever, Peter Cochrane...
PGS
Excellent - you choose not to identify who you are...
Peter Cochrane
Not according to my data, experience and experimen...
Peter Cochrane
So what is the solution? The real problem is surl...
John Lucas
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