As per tstaddon:
So, here’s a much better AND CHEAPER idea for Stephen Timms:
We know our village could partner up with a local company, to install and operate a community microwave broadband solution offering 16mbps broadband service to anyone who needs it (which could offer >50mbit broadband with minimal investment, in a couple of years’ time).
The projected cost to us to get this up and running, doesn’t even run into five figures.
We’d much rather have a grant to get that project up and running NOW, than twiddle our thumbs for a few years paying the 10p tax for the substandard infrastructure we have now so we can subsidise BT for giving places like Ebbsfleet and its brownfield trial sites in North London a better broadband service than they already have (even though their services are way better than ours).
We KNOW there’s no point holding our breath for the roll out of a network that’s ALREADY out of date in technology terms. We KNOW it will be even more out of date when (if) it ever gets to reach places like ours. And we KNOW we’ll be left till last by the major players.
So come on, Mr Timms. Show a bit of backbone. If BT and Virgin show no interest in upgrading the infrastructure in places like ours, for God’s sake don’t BRIBE them into doing it because it’s a waste of cash.
