Chorley villages get 20mb broadband service (From Chorley Citizen)
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Chorley villages get 20mb broadband service
4:38pm Wednesday 1st February 2012 in Chorley
More than 20,000 properties in Lancashire now have access to faster broadband.
Eccleston, Adlington, Coppull and Hoghton are among the villages earmarked for upgrades in coming months.
The communities are the latest in the county to benefit from the roll-out of BT’s next-generation broadband service – which more than doubles download speeds to 20 megabits per second.
Mike Blackburn, BT’s North West regional director, said: “This is an important step for Lancashire. In these challenging economic times, faster broadband can help businesses become more competitive, find new customers and work more flexibly as well as greatly improving the online services to families, homeworkers and other internet users.
“By the summer, around 90 per cent of the region’s homes and businesses will be served by an exchange that has been upgraded to deliver these higher speeds.”
The investment in the next-generation copper network is in addition to a £2.5billion roll-out of fibre-optic broadband, which will bring even faster speeds to around two-thirds of premises by the end of 2014.
Mr Blackburn added: “We are keen to work with the public sector to explore ways of bringing faster broadband to other areas which are geographically and commercially more challenging.”
Comments(7)
jogalot
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6:42pm Wed 1 Feb 12
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The rich will get light speed but they'll keep the rest of us very restricted and claim they are giving us wonderful service. That's business for you. Branson's giving Virgin media customers "double speed". I wonder if he'll ever make enough money to turn around and say "I'm taking all the restrictions away and giving you full light speed because you are humans just like me and I like humans, and now that I am super rich, I feel so happy to be alive and want to share my love with the whole world!". Probably not, I wonder if he's even happy?
Graham Hartley
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9:34pm Wed 1 Feb 12
Fibre optic is not the speed of light.
The medium through which the light travels affects its speed - fibre optics are glass and the mechanism is (pretty) well-understood. But photons emitted at the centre of a sun are re-absorbed and their energy-equivalents can arrive at the surface years later. There is some quantum physics and relativity to consider in such rather extreme circumstances but the connection jogalot attempts to make between lightspeed and dataspeed is evidence of his ignorance or his guile. If one has a technical education then one should present it honestly.
Graham Hartley
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9:59pm Wed 1 Feb 12
A millibit service is suggested by the lower-case 'mb'. Does the writer intend 'Mb', a megabit service?
jogalot
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10:16pm Wed 1 Feb 12
Graham Hartley wrote:Yes, Mb. OK, I wasn't strictly accurate, I was going off what a cable installer told me. Having looked on the net, it appears 14 terabits may be the max. That's still mighty mighty fast, about 1 million times the speed of 14 Mb. So my argument still applies.
"Chorley villages get 20mb broadband service"
A millibit service is suggested by the lower-case 'mb'. Does the writer intend 'Mb', a megabit service?
Graham Hartley
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10:30pm Wed 1 Feb 12
jogalot wrote:Usually, no-one can be strictly accurate.
Graham Hartley wrote:Yes, Mb. OK, I wasn't strictly accurate, I was going off what a cable installer told me. Having looked on the net, it appears 14 terabits may be the max. That's still mighty mighty fast, about 1 million times the speed of 14 Mb. So my argument still applies.
"Chorley villages get 20mb broadband service"
A millibit service is suggested by the lower-case 'mb'. Does the writer intend 'Mb', a megabit service?
The speed of light cannot be directly compared with the speed of data transfer. You have no argument to apply.
chrisconder
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11:40am Thu 2 Feb 12
Its the biggest con we are ever likely to witness in our lives. Many still struggle on dial up because they can't get broadband. Because they are connected to 'broadband enabled' exchanges they don't register on these stats.
BT should hang their heads in shame. And ofcom should join the bonfire quango, as they are a toothless regulator.
rovers-baz says...
5:05pm Wed 1 Feb 12