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awibble · 16-04-2007, 10:24

Personally i think the problem is the uk consumer.

I have delt with Americans a lot, worked and lived around europe and they charge a lot for the services. This gives them the money to upgrade networks when its needed.

Becuase of the current cost, uk consumers are not willing to pay more, personally i would pay double for broadband if i knew the networks where constantly been upgraded.

The other problem is that many countries didnt privatise, so the phone and telecoms networks are stil government owned, which means they dont have shareholders to please.

I personally see 2 ways that the UK can move, one as you have discussed is using existing piplines. It should be very easy to use the existing piplines as plenty of them are not used.

The other way is WiMax, but that has a long way to go before it can be considered a network.

BT should be the company that really need to get into gear, they inherited a public network and they have used that to avoid upgrades for years. Virgins network is much stronger from this point of view.

16-04-2007, 10:24	#2
awibble cf.geek Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Slough Services: FreeView FreeSat SKY+ (6 Mix) BT Phone (comming soon) V+ XL - TV XL - PHONE XL - BB SKY-MOV Posts: 701	Re: UK telecoms companies not upgrading networks enough? Personally i think the problem is the uk consumer. I have delt with Americans a lot, worked and lived around europe and they charge a lot for the services. This gives them the money to upgrade networks when its needed. Becuase of the current cost, uk consumers are not willing to pay more, personally i would pay double for broadband if i knew the networks where constantly been upgraded. The other problem is that many countries didnt privatise, so the phone and telecoms networks are stil government owned, which means they dont have shareholders to please. I personally see 2 ways that the UK can move, one as you have discussed is using existing piplines. It should be very easy to use the existing piplines as plenty of them are not used. The other way is WiMax, but that has a long way to go before it can be considered a network. BT should be the company that really need to get into gear, they inherited a public network and they have used that to avoid upgrades for years. Virgins network is much stronger from this point of view.