I have a 100mbit fiber into my house here in Sweden.Best download was 11 MEGABYTEs/second. My friends in US have 512 kbit download.The whole infrastructure is supported by the local community.Hey ,I can work from home and have better performance than in my office 100 mbit LAN. If I want I can have Lan based TV and films on the demand. Why do US and GB have so lousy
internet structure?

If you cannot use bittorrent, how will you use that broadband? :D

Japan and Korea have had 160mb since last December. That's in the sticks too not just the big cities. There is talk of 1gb in the near future. Caps are unheard of here.

Uk, cough, pedestrian, cough, 3rd world, cough, clueless.

Mmmm! BT upgraded my line from barely 5.5mbps (paying for 8mbps), to 1.5mbps (paying for 20mbps). How can this be? Well, I used by new found broadband speed, and hit BT's fair use limit. SO even though I've been given access to higher speeds, the fair use policy is still low, and very very poorly implemented. I'd like to tell then where to go, but I'm not likely to find any better service elsewhere at the moment. It makes me angry. I'm being forced to pay for a service that my provider is refusing to make available to me. Can I ask for some cash back I wonder? Mmm!

I'm an Openreach Engineer that works in Milton Keynes, Now what people dont understand is that the Bradwell Abbey exchange which is what they are talking about isn't in Bradwell Abbey and also dosen't feed the Bradwell Abbey area. The exchange is off the Fishermead area and feeds the city and out towards the M1. I can forsee alot of confusion over this and i think they need to make it clear what areas will be provided not just the exchange area.

Ho are they going to expand their network effectively if they can't fix the bloody Poplar exchange, that causes the only broadband NOT-SPOT in London ?

http://www.broadband-notspot.org.uk/coverage-map.html#12,51.508528775862885,-0.0858306884765625,all,2

Obviously I'm one of the lucky buggers living there. Grrr.

... is latency, line quality and bandwidth caps...

Now having (up to)100mbs is all well and good, just don't hit me with a lag spike while gaming and throttle my connection as I view "rich media".

if BT said "you can have fiber optic to your house but you'll have to cut your own trench", i'd bite their arm off.

When I hear the headline like this article in Indonesia? Telkomsel menaikkan kecapatan Speedy 100 mbps. BT could you please like 3 (Three) to expand your ISP in Indonesia? I really like 100 mbps :X.