http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/11/19/1511255/Secret-UK-Plan-To-Appoint-Pirate-Finder-General?art_pos=10

""A source very close to the UK Labour government just called me to leak the fact that Secretary of State Lord Mandelson is trying to sneak a revision into the Digital Economy Bill that would give him and his successors the power to create future copyright law without debate. Mandelson goes on to explain that he wants this so he can create private copyright militias with investigatory and enforcement powers, and so he can create new copyright punishments as he sees fit (e.g., jail time, three strikes)."

Agreed with Mike

I live near Canada water tube station & my O2 bb speed is terribly slow & keep disconnecting every hour.

Area is developing fast but infrastructure is not. We live in just 10min away from central london.

Poplar - friggin - exchange!

With thousands of new flats at the end of their development in the Canary Wharf area and no will nor push to invest from BT and broadband providers I predict a big uproar soon. People who didn't fit onto the LLU network suffer speeds of 1MBPS (!).

Recent O2's traffic shaping policy, introduced in from beginning of October have only made matters worse as people on Access Package suffer 25kbps limits from 7-24 while torrent works fine with speeds around 180kb (which still is an effin joke).

So dear politicians and decision-makers, please stop talking about next-gen super-duper-high-speed netwerkz and sort the major problem in your financial heart.

http://www.broadband-notspot.org.uk/coverage-map.html#11,51.50959718054336,-0.0981903076171875,all,2