Fibre broadband proposal

http://www.onestopclick.com/news/South-Yorkshire-in-line-for-bandwidth-improvement_18407738.html

 

improvement_18407738.html

An interesting article, but totally lacking in detail. Any further
sources of information?

 

There was talk of this a couple of years ago. A quick Google for some
of the key words that I remember from the time turned up the link below.
Can't be bothered to read it right now but others may have the time to
do so.

http://ec.europa.eu/community_law/state_aids/comp-2006/n157-06.pdf

Andy

 

From one extreme to the other! Having had a quick scan of that, it looks
like the proposal is to lay fibre to get DSLAMs closer to the end users,
to get ADSL2/2+ and VDSL2 working. Fibre may be taken all the way to the
premises in some cases.

 

I think that is in the end the way things will go.

Rather like cable is done: Fibre under the roads, and *active* boxes in
the street,with the last few hundred yards by copper, if that.

Ultimately it will be faster, more reliable and cheaper.

But its a huge capital investment up front.

 

In uk.telecom.broadband, on Sat, 29 Dec 2007 13:51:03, The Natural

With the price of copper ever-rising, it might be cost effective, given
the salvage of the old cables...

 

not much - it looks like everyone is just parroting the press release

http://www.telappliant.com/news/18408488/South+Yorkshire+in+line+for+broadband+boost/0/

http://www.thestar.co.uk/rotherham/Plan-to-boost-community-internet.3623270.jp

http://seekbroadband.com/focus/2007...yorkshire-to-get-super-fast-50mbps-broadband/

 

Y'know, that is not a bad thought at all.