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Uk Lagging Behind the Rest Of Europe in Broadband

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  • 18-10-2006 11:01am
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    Sponge Bob
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    I don't know whether to laugh or cry at this BBC article.
    "The speeds that are available in the UK are lagging a long, long way behind other European counties,"

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6041446.stm
    While broadband is now available to around 99% of the UK, PointTopic predicts that around 30% of the country will not access the cheaper, technically more sophisticated services that LLU allows, opening up a new digital divide.
    Broadband Britain is perhaps not as healthy as it first seems.

    Jeez, we are about 70% availability (not 99%) and 30% with access to LLU (not as in the UK where 30% are WITHOUT access.

    Must mail the poms and tell them to stop whinging.


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    Urban Weigl
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    According to that article, the poor unfortunate Brits are still chugging along at an old fashioned 8Mbps, while the French are enjoying 24Mbps as standard.

    While most of the phone lines around Ballyhaunis seem to fall over trying to reach 1Mbps...


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    Foxwood
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    Urban Weigl wrote:
    While most of the phone lines around Ballyhaunis seem to fall over trying to reach 1Mbps...
    Meanwhile, the Taoiseach is worried that Ireland will be the laughing stock of Europe because we still use "stupid old pencils" in elections.

    Priorities, priorities.


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    bealtine
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    Sponge Bob wrote:

    Jeez, we are about 70% availability (not 99%) and 30% with access to LLU (not as in the UK where 30% are WITHOUT access.

    Oh for gods sake stop whining...Haven't you heard there's no demand for that broadband stuff here.

    (Better keep the pencils sharpened)


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    Galen
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    Yeah that's about all we can expect the brits moaning about the arrival of next-generation broadband, while we wait for the first generation to turn up. I be old and grey by the time broadband does arrive no doubt.


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    a line failure
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    The trouble is that the net is getting bigger everyday and if 8mg Britain is been left behind, think what that bodes for us.''shudder'':(


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    Urban Weigl
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    In other news, Iran's internet users will be limited to 128kbps. Let's hope that ComReg follows Iran's lead by defining functional internet access at 128kbps, instead of 0k as it is now.


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    damien
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    I think you'll find they'll define a broadband connection as 128k and we'll be at the head of the league tables for broadband at long last.


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    bealtine
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    damien.m wrote:
    I think you'll find they'll define a broadband connection as 128k and we'll be at the head of the league tables for broadband at long last.

    Even the amazonian jungle is powering ahead of us,broadband wise. Parintins (a town of 114,000 inhabitants) on an island in the Amazon river has now got broadband thanks to magic of Wimax.

    There probably isn't a more isolated place on the planet. Certainly far more isolated than most of rural Ireland (and some city areas too). Yet somehow those Brazilians managed to get backhaul to it.


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    bealtine
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    damien.m wrote:
    I think you'll find they'll define a broadband connection as 128k and we'll be at the head of the league tables for broadband at long last.

    More likely 127k, so that ay they can define ISDN as broadband...


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    watty
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    Dual channel ISDN *IS* 128K, or approaching 200K with "on the fly" compression when it isn't Mpeg, MP3 or suchlike that can't compress more.

    < 50ms ping and > 220Kbps always on is a good starting point to define broadband.


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    Sponge Bob
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    bealtine wrote:
    ..can define ISDN as broadband...

    Which is what the Iranians have just done for ideological reasons. Mullah Noel is such a powerful politician I can see it happening here too .


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    bealtine
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    Sponge Bob wrote:
    Which is what the .

    Here is the text:

    High-speed internet bandwidth, higher than 128K now prohibited by the Irelandic regime

    Ireland Press News: The Irelandic regime has now banned private residences and public locations access to high-speed internet with a bandwidth above 128K.

    According to INN NEWS a letter signed by Mahmoud Fish and national resources, the director of the radio communications regulatory organization of the Irelandic regime to internet companies states: “You are hereby advised that until further notice, offering bandwidth above 128K to all private residences and public locations must be avoided.”
    This now puts us, finally, in the top 10 of the OECD nations. We can now classify ISDN as broadband and roll it out to the vast desert area of the Irelandic Republic.

    Next week all music will be banned, in the public interest.


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