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UK BROADBAND SERVICES LAGGING BEHIND
by Mike Martin
01/02/2005
| BT has recently announced that it will be
doubling the speed of its broadband internet access services. This means that
their “starter” service will be at 1Mbps with 2Mbps services available in some
areas.
Superficially, this seems like a dramatic
step forward. Maybe it is for BT, but in other countries, the speed and cost
of broadband services is far superior to that of the UK. For example, in Japan, a 50Mbps service is available (in Tokyo) for around £20 per month! Even in South Korea, 10 and 20Mbps services are common, with a 100Mbps service promised for the
near future.
These offerings make the BT services look
pale in comparison. One of the problems of course, is that many of the 2nd
and 3rd world countries have newly installed telecommunications
infrastructures. Here in the UK, the old copper telephone distribution
infrastructure is aged and not capable of supporting greater transmission
speeds. Technological improvements are increasing the effective speed, but
this is now reaching its limit. A major investment is needed to improve this
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