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Story: 100Mbps broadband a reality by 2007

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100Mbps? You must be joking - it will only apply to cable (available in 79% of UK). Down here in the South West there is little or no cable.

It has taken me 18 months since BT made Bude exchange capable of ADSL to get broadband. Apparently I lived too far away from the exchange when their 6k rule applied (if I had a long arm I could throw a stone to it) but now they have extended their "throw" I have been able to get it.

I get a nominal 512 kbps (rather than the 1 or 2 Mbps I applied for) which seems to operate at 576 but like all it only uploads at 288. Still all this is better than dial up which never operated at better than 28 kbps!

For the type of servces that need these colossal speeds to work, availability outside the main metrolpoli is de rigeur. Ironically it is the more isolated that really need the ability to use these services. What are the cable boys and other broadband suppliers going to do about that dichotomy?

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