Bow Down Before the Awesome Power of Fibre
Of course, the rest of the world already has done, but to us poor souls trapped in the decaying hell hole that is Britain this is some magical new wonder material. Seriously, 24Mb ‘broadband’? What the hell. All across the globe people are laughing at the UK’s ineptitude, and our tiny ePenises.
But finally we have started the race into the Twenty First Century, just 8 years late, with the introduction of optic fibre to ‘around 600 new homes‘ in ‘either Bournemouth, Northampton or Dundee‘. Wow. Great news there then. I guess sometime in the next half decade I might get the chance to move to a large city and experience some form of high speed Internet. Meh, it’s cool, I’ll just move to America and get a properly unlimited connection for half the price.
Exaggeration aside however, the article does mention that BT is still not convinced of demand… Bullshit. Look, you run fibre to my house, I will happily pay upto, hmmm, what, £60 - 70 a month? for a properly unlimited 50Mb/25Mb Internet connection. And when I say ‘properly unlimited’ I mean properly unlimited. That means no ‘unlimited, but only between midnight and 6am’ or ‘unlimited, but as long as you don’t go over 50Gb a month’ or even worse ‘unlimited as long as you stay within the unbelievably blurry guidelines of our fair usage policy’. I want proper unlimited Internet, at high speed, and I want it for around £30. That is, after all, what the rest of the world gets, why not here? Ahh, because we don’t live in a free country any more… something like that anyway.
Here’s the original article anyway, for those interested.
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