In the UK, broadband coverage is very patchy, and causing alot of discontent
with small businesses. I am a mile and a half from a major city and it's
broadband capable exchange, but was told recently by British Telecom that I
was on the edge of the coverage area and couldn't have it. There are
businesses in London that have been told pretty much the same thing.
British Telecom have admitted they need to rethink their broadband plans.
The fastest I can have is ISDN, which is what I do have - but I have the
money and the requirement for broadband...it's simply that currently our
major telecom supplier in the UK is not up to the task, not in this property
anyway. Great shame and very annoying.
Julian.
on 19/9/02 5:33 AM, David Gratton wrote:
> In Canada, when we talk consumer broadband (for the Internet) we are
> talking generally a megabit a second "ish" and often considerably
> higher. Naturally many servers and network congestion makes
> attaining this not always possible, but for the most part we are very
> fortunate in our broadband connectivity and capacity.
>
> That said, I am curious what broadband means or implies elsewhere on
> the planet in regards to the Internet.
>
> I ask because things have changed considerably in the last 5 years.
> When I was living in Munich, ISDN was broadband (and expensive).
> When I was living in Singapore, 56k was pretty much all you could
> get, but now I understand they have laid fibre all over the country.
> Is DSL in California still limited? Any insight would be helpful to
> me.
>
> Thanks in advance.
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