E-Tub to eat Europe's Dust

Lemming

Just got my monthly e-letter from PC Pro magazine, and all I can safely say is that whilst we are still trying to get out of the starting gate, our nearest rival (the UK) is already moving up a gear.

Our chances of competing within Europe as a "leading E-Economy" grow slimmer and slimmer by the day.

Article: PC Pro

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Thursday 12th September 2002
UPDATED: High-speed broadband for 2003
12:51

BT is to extend its high-speed SDSL broadband trial to include new services such as video-conferencing and teleworking.

If successful, the trials will lead to a wider launch of SDSL products and services mid-2003.

SDSL broadband provides faster up- and downstream speeds than current ADSL offerings. An initial trial was announced for London in June but only covered a limited set of services. This new trial will include 20 London exchanges before being extended to as many as 50 in Manchester and Yorkshire.

BT will test at least two SDSL products giving access speeds of up to 2Mbit/sec in both directions. Current ADSL offerings offer 512Kbit (1Mbit in some cases) downstream (from the Internet to your computer) but only half that upstream (from your computer to the Internet).

BT Data Stream Symmetric is aimed at service providers and other telecommunications companies for them to sell on to businesses. Services will include Internet access and data transfer as well as audio- and video-conferencing, teleworking, wide area networking and remote database access.

BT IPStream Symmetric will enable businesses to deliver applications and content to customers via any IP-based network. According to BT, it will be 'ideal' for fast email and file transfer, wide area networking and Web hosting.

UPDATE: The locations of the London trails are now listed at ISPreview.

Simon Aughton

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Dun

Originally posted by Lemming
SDSL broadband provides faster up- and downstream speeds than current ADSL offerings.

So just as ASDL was Always Delayed Slightly Longer here, I suppose SDSL Simply Doesn't Seem Likely.

ando

Originally posted by dun_do_bheal
I suppose SDSL Simply Doesn't Seem Likely.

ohhhh, I like it

I currently have "It Still Does Nothing" at home

Hannibal_12

Simply Delayed Slightly Longer.

In all seriousness though this is a point that someone made on these boards a while back. It may take so long here for a decent chunk of our diminutive population to get DSL that theoretically newer connectivity technologies in most other advanced countries will exist or that ADSL will be in use but operating at a much higher speed than we have here for an equivalent price.
Its already starting, I believe BT or Blueyonder (not sure which) already offer 1mb connections (along with some cable operators) for about £50stg which is still quite a bit less than what we in the famed E-Tub pay for a non existant service.

pork99

It may take so long here for a decent chunk of our diminutive population to get DSL that theoretically newer connectivity technologies in most other advanced countries will exist or that ADSL will be in use but operating at a much higher speed than we have here for an equivalent price.

Given that there has been unprecedented growth in the economy over the last 10 years, which is coming to an end now, the government was able to rely on steadily increasing tax revenue. Any competent government would maximise this revenue and then use the surplus when the downturn comes to:

1) Cut income tax to stimulate consumer spending

2) Increase spending on infrastructure projects, e.g. subsidising the rollout of broadband, improving the road and rail network etc.

These measures would be a cushion against the worst effects of recession and put us in a stronger postion to take advantage of the next upturn.

But no, the current encumbents approach is based on spending like drunken sailors when the cash was flowing in, eg the Bertiedrome, SSIAs for everyone, etc, then blind panic when the money tide seems to be receding.

theciscokid

its better than ISDN - interesting solution desired by no-one

DeVore

In Search of a Decent Network.

To make you sick, its 45 dollars per month to get 12Mbit fibre to your door in Japan.

DeV.

andrew163

Originally posted by DeVore
In Search of a Decent Network.

To make you sick, its 45 dollars per month to get 12Mbit fibre to your door in Japan.

DeV.

:eek:

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Ruaidhri

Originally posted by andrew163
:eek:

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what he said

ednwireland

funny that had sdsl at 1 meg in a boston office for a couple of hundred bucks a month over 3 years ago company unfortunately in liwuidation now