Comments on: Digital Britain – Interim Report = Half-Baked Ideas! http://blog.ukfast.co.uk/2009/01/31/digital-britain-%e2%80%93-interim-report-half-baked-ideas/ News and views from the UK's best hosting provider Thu, 19 Jan 2012 19:17:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Robert Brainstorm http://blog.ukfast.co.uk/2009/01/31/digital-britain-%e2%80%93-interim-report-half-baked-ideas/comment-page-1/#comment-3825 Robert Brainstorm Mon, 02 Feb 2009 15:37:41 +0000 http://www.ukfastblog.co.uk/?p=3335#comment-3825 Surely the poor consumer broadband speeds in the UK compared to a lot of other western European countries is due to BT having a monopoly over the market and no incentive to update their infrastructure from copper to fibre optic? This has allowed BT and BT resellers to continue charging high prices for a poor service. It is only recently that BT have started getting competition from Virgin Media and have announced half hearted upgrades that aren't really going to improve their service. However Virgin Media have a long way to go before they can start pushing BT around. Surely the poor consumer broadband speeds in the UK compared to a lot of other western European countries is due to BT having a monopoly over the market and no incentive to update their infrastructure from copper to fibre optic? This has allowed BT and BT resellers to continue charging high prices for a poor service.

It is only recently that BT have started getting competition from Virgin Media and have announced half hearted upgrades that aren’t really going to improve their service. However Virgin Media have a long way to go before they can start pushing BT around.

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