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Story: Ofcom pours cold water on fibre in the local loop
Ofcom and fibre optics for rural telephone connections
Living in a village 4 miles from the nearest exchange is like living on another planet - maximum sped is 512kbps and as I work from home with associates in the EU and in all other continents, broadband speed is important and my speed is such that I am thinking of selling and moving just to get 2 Mbps so i can conduct my business efficiently.
In other countries fibre optis is always put in with new housing projects and old copper wiring is or has been replaced with fibre when ever work has to be done on copper wiring - is it not time that this country stopped thinking that we have the best of everything - that is as far from the truth as you can get.
I have lived and worked in many countries over the past 20 years and we are backward in so many services - telecommunications is one, the other for business is banking - this is still in the stoneage - still no electronic cheque clearing !!
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