It's all about cost
I'm getting between 60 and 70 Mbps over FTTC.
I'm currently paying £11.99 with Plusnet who I don't think do FTTP and even if they did I'm sure I would end up paying more!
Posts by Pete4000uk
307 publicly visible posts • joined 6 Aug 2012
Fibre broadband uptake in UK lags behind OECD countries
Internet Society condemns UK's Online Safety Bill for demonising encryption using 'think of the children' tactic
After deadly 737 Max crashes, damning whistleblower report reveals sidelined engineers, scarcity of expertise, more
Galileo satnav system gets two new somewhat confusing satellites
Shocking: UK electricity tariffs are among world's most expensive
US nuclear submarine bumps into unidentified underwater object in South China Sea
The planet survived six hours without Facebook. Let's make it longer next time
Samsung to sling 2nm silicon in 2025, 3nm process running a little late
UK MoD data strategy calls for social media surveillance on behalf of 'local authorities'
Anyone still using cash? British £50 banknote honouring Alan Turing arrives
Pack your bags! Astroboffins spot 24 'superhabitable' exoplanets better than Earth at supporting complex life
'Mindset reset' contributes to £1bn extra costs and another delay – 2 years this time – for Emergency Services Network
WTF is cloud-tethered compute? We're not sure either, but it just made a hype cycle for the first time
The good news: Vodafone switches on first full-fat, real-life 5G network in the UK. The bad news: it only got sent to Coventry
No surprise: Britain ditches central database model for virus contact-tracing apps in favour of Apple-Google API
Germany to fund development of edge CPUs as part of 'tech you can trust' plan to home-brew more kit
Record-breaking Aussie boffins send 44.2 terabits a second screaming down 75km of fiber from single chip
NHS contact tracing app isn't really anonymous, is riddled with bugs, and is open to abuse. Good thing we're not in the middle of a pandemic, eh?
NASA signs deals to put a rocket under Artemis flights until 2029
Academics: We hate to ask, but could governments kindly refrain from building giant data-slurping, contact-tracing coronavirus monsters?
IBM puts 1,248 frontline techies at risk of redundo, warns of data centre closures
UK.gov sits down with mobile big four to formalise plans for rural shared 4G network
Rocket Lab wants to break free, hopes next mission is more 'A Kind Of Magic' than 'Another One Bites The Dust'
Morrisons puts non-essential tech changes on ice as panic-stricken shoppers strip stores
MPs to grill Post Office and Fujitsu execs on Horizon IT scandal after workers jailed over accounting errors
Aww, a cute mini-moon is orbiting Earth right now. But like all good things, it too will abandon us at some point
Galileo got it wrong – official: Jupiter actually wet, not super-dry: 'No one would have guessed that water might be so variable across the planet'
And they said IoT was trash: Sheffield 'smart' bins to start screaming when they haven't been emptied for a fortnight
Jeff Bezos bungs $10bn at climate change after chump change for Oz bush fires
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's a flying solar panel: BAE Systems' satellite alternative makes maiden flight in Oz
In case you wanna launch your boss into the Sun, good news: Earth's largest solar telescope just checked and, yeah, it's still pretty fiery
Remember that 2024 Moon thing? How about Mars in 2033? Authorization bill moots 2028 for more lunar footprints
World's richest bloke battles Oz catastro-fire with incredible AU$1m donation (aka load of cheap greenwashing)
Tuesday 14th January 2020 08:11 GMT
Thing is
What's needed is long term spending on prevention, such as not having forests right up to towns and a fire service that is able to contain fires that break out. But you don't get that from donations like this.
In saying that there are plenty of agencies that will appreciate such money (those trying to save and rehabilitate the nicer types of animals)
Biting the hand that feeds IT
