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It's the lack of ambition that really grates on me about this levy. While South Korea, Japan and erm France power ahead with 100MBit Broadband in cities, we're still talking about a maximum of 50Mbit by 2017.
Welcome to the country of free enterprise. Did anybody really expect that PLC's or Privatised companies were ever going to spend that kind of money to provide services when they can get by on the current infrastructure, offer poor services and fleece the customer at the same time, with the only people who benefit are their shareholders and those in the boardroom?
These sort of services, such as Rail, leccy, mail etc, should be just that: services. Not for shareholders or profit. They should be funded by the Government. The public and businesses that use these services should be making the profit.
Ever since the utilities got privatised, our infrastructure has been left behind compared to similar European economies.
"Ever since the utilities got privatised, our infrastructure has been left behind compared to similar European economies. "
Sorry mate, but that is so wrong....
Sorry mate, but that is so wrong....
A single line answer doesn't prove otherwise.
And on another note we have across England, in general, the fastest broadband speeds in Europe: FACT
Not for long.
teeto - what aracer says, any kind of radio wave is effectively line of sight unless it is transmitted at brain boiling power or low enough wavelength to be reflected by the atmosphere (that's why the world service still broadcasts in LW). in urban areas it can be reflected by denser materials like buildings
it's also why the emergency services (and any radio comms users) had to spend an awful lot of money putting in repeaters after the change over to digital as digital signals make the problem worse by having a very finite cut off level for power. you either get it....or you don't. same goes for analogue TV/digital TV.
and as for being able to 'use' the internet with dial up, that has certainly not been my experience and don't forget that using dial up ties up your phone line
any kind of radio wave is effectively line of sight unless it is transmitted at brain boiling power or low enough wavelength to be reflected by the atmosphere (that's why the world service still broadcasts in LW). in urban areas it can be reflected by denser materials like buildings
Not quite. Upping the power doesn't help the radio waves make it round corners. Meanwhile only a very limited range of frequencies (from ~2MHz to ~30MHz) get reflected by the ionosphere (skywave). Lower frequencies will follow the earth's curvature (ground wave), though this is shorter range than skywave. Higher frequencies, including GSM, will still be reflected in urban areas, though as I mentioned before this won't help them over the horizon in rural areas.
That's the noddy version - it's rather more complicated than that, but I'm not an expert. I have worked with people who are amongst the best in this field though.