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How Thatcher killed the UK's superfast broadband before it even existed

bealtine · 2014-03-23 15:41:19

http://www.techradar.com/us/news/world-of-tech/how-the-uk-lost-the-broadband-race-in-1990-1224784 "In 1986, I managed to get fibre to the home cheaper than copper and we started a programme where we built factories for manufacturing the system."

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23-03-2014 4:41pm

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http://www.techradar.com/us/news/world-of-tech/how-the-uk-lost-the-broadband-race-in-1990-1224784

"In 1986, I managed to get fibre to the home cheaper than copper and we started a programme where we built factories for manufacturing the system."

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Instead they started even installing Aluminium cable which is very poor for DSL compared to copper.

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