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UK "Digitial divide becoming bandwidth divide"

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  • 12-04-2005 10:13am
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    vinnyfitz
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    Report calls for action over broadband speeds in rural areas

    While the vast majority of the UK will soon have access to broadband, the "digital divide" is now fast becoming a "bandwidth divide", according a new Government report.

    The warning comes from a paper published by the Commission for Rural Communities, a new division of the Countryside Agency set up on 1 April.

    The report says that although the initial problem of patchy access to high-speed internet services is now being overcome, the arrival of even faster broadband could create a new generation of divides between urban and rural areas.

    Where is London, businesses and residents can access broadband services of up to 8MB per second, for many rural dwellers, 128Kbps is the current limit - just over double the speed of standard dial-up........
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    Capt'n Midnight
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    rural dwellers, 128Kbps is the current limit - just over double the speed of standard dial-up........
    Only 128KB the poor things, a lot of city dwellers and most rural surfers would envy them..

    Most of our population can't even access a service that is seen as sub-standard next door. :rolleyes:


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    Cabaal
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    wtf BT will provide 512K to almost every place in the country...they;ll try their damn best to allow someone to get BB they'll even send out a engineer and he'll decide what the story is.
    Its nothing like what Errorcom do with line test.

    I don't understand where their getting 128k out of in fairness, since the lowest that a line can be provisened for BB is 512K*

    * Many providers offer a 256K service but the line is still provisioned for 512K to offer this service.


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