Millions face three-year-wait for basic broadband speeds

This article describes waits of up to three years for broadband but in Hampshire there are an estimated 23000 homes without any prospect of provision through the Govt/BT/Hampshire County Council delivery plan.
So, the 3 options are: move home, seek to upgrade as a community or buy it for yourself through private enterprise

This Telegraph article describes the delay of 3 years- but if, like me, you are in the 2018 wave of works, by the time it reaches us, it will be out of date!
We need innovation- and we need it fast!
Risk takers might be prepared to look at other systems- what is there to lose?

So, I visited the new wireless transmitter at Crab Wood to see newly formed start up, Gigabeam’s incoming fibre recently- the scary thing is the size of the wire that brings in the communication potential- it is SO TINY!

Here’s what the Telegraph says…but what are MP’s doing about it, apart from complaining?
There is another solution…

The research in the article is old hat- it describes what we all suffer- and have been doing so for a long time.
Since the Government insisted on all forms being online- becoming ‘e enabled’ from 2000 to 2005, the race for better speeds has been a fractious one.
It affects everything from applying for a disabled car parking pass to your tax form.Loading onto a cloud based storage system just takes too long! Those on slower speeds, including those pupils in education, are at a clear disadvantage.

to half of homes in the countryside – as many as 1.5 million households – will have to wait two to three years before they can get a “minimum” internet speed, industry regulator Ofcom has said. Ofcom argues that internet speeds of at least 10 megabits per second is the “minimum… required by the typical household” with multiple devices to get a good service to stream programmes and access websites.
Research backed by 121 MPs published at the weekend called for a radical overhaul of the internet market and calls for the break-up of the “monopoly” that BT holds on the cable network. The Local Government Association said in evidence to MPs investigating broadband that there was “no technical reason” for BT to control access of broadband services to homes, allowing it to tie in new customers to phone and broadband packages, and that BT’s market dominance was “a significant barrier to local efforts to close the digital divide”.
(thanks to Telegraph online: 26th Jan 2016)

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