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Strategic Towns with 100Mbps Broadband

@SeanTheMac,
It would be great if people could vote with their feet but BT have already put paid to that with a revolving 18 month contract. The idea that if you currently get 2Mbps , you'll get 4Mbps is taking a very small sample that live very near to the exchange. This is not the case if you live 3.5km from the exchange where the differences are minimal. ADSL2+ has a maximum theoretical throughput of 24Mbps, BT have decided to promote this as 'upto 20Mbps', and there is currently a good discussion going on with plus.net on their support forums on how to promote ADSL2+. Should it state 'between 1Mbps and 24Mbps' or upto 20Mbps. The point is ADSL2+ can be between 1Mbps and 24Mbps, add in contention ratios, traffic shaping, line quality, distance from the exchange, internal house wiring extensions, saturated BT networks, wireless routers that convert this to wireless and your closer to the 1Mbps than to 24Mbps. All of these reduce speeds or create a bottleneck.
We need 'strategic towns' throughout the UK with the same maximum broadbands speeds as 'London'. Between these stragetic towns we need mobile broadband speeds HSDPA upto 7.2Mbps, within 40mins of everyone in the UK. This allows everyone to live and work in the the communities they know, with broadbands speed which are consistent thoughout the UK. The romans used hill tops with fire beacons - we need the broadband equivalent - its cost effective and fair.

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