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Taxpayers fork out for Kent's rural broadband
NIMBYS BEWARE, British Telecom is going to roll out its Fibre-to-the-Cabinet (FTTC) services in the village of Iwade in Kent to deliver 40Mbps broadband to the residents' 1,350 homes by December.
The FTTC roll out is occurring with the help of Kent County Council. It has given a grant to Iwade's Parish Council to subsidise BT's investment. After the demise of the broadband tax planned under the last government, high speed Internet in rural areas was expected to only be possible with the help of generous capitalists. But BT has stepped in with the help of some local government dosh.
The company is investing £2.5 billion to deliver fibre-based broadband to two-thirds of UK homes by 2015 and it says, "Iwade did not feature in BT's fibre roll-out plans previously as the commercial case for deploying fibre in less densely populated areas is very challenging."
The former state owned monopoly adds that it wants to work with local government for the remaining third of UK homes that are so far from urban civilisation that provisioning them with fibre-based broadband is uneconomic.
But not all is going well with the nationwide roll out even in urban areas, as residents of Brighton are complaining about the cabinets being unfashionable and simply not nice enough even for Hove. µ
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My parents live in Iwade and they are lucky to get 800k on a good day with a fair wind even when I tweak their routers SNR to 50%
I hope this speed boost applies to everyone in the village and is not a payable 'extra'. I don't care for the 40mbit but a boost to 8mbit on their current plan would be great!
New rope chafes one so.
"But not all is going well with the nationwide roll out even in urban areas, as residents of Brighton are complaining about the cabinets being unfashionable and simply not nice enough even for Hove."
People around here want broadband bad enough that if they had to have a pink elephant holding the cable, they'd go for it.
I swear, some people would complain even if you hung them with a brand new rope.