Oh yeah, well we're smarter than that over here in the US. You know...
we can make this stuff work even though every previous attempt
in other countries failed. C'mon. This is America...where you can (or
at least used to be able to) IPO a company for $1B based on pipedreams.
OK, I'll take my tongue out of my cheek now :-;
BTW, I just talked to some friends of mine at lunch that claim that
there is a company planning to build out a WiFi network to cover nearly the
entire country of New Zealand (except for really remote places I suppose).
Sounds like a much better plan than trying to bypass 100 year old transformers,
deal with broken down old power lines and insulators, and otherwise trying
to ring the last bit of blood out of that turnip.
On Thu, 29 Apr 2004 17:01:47 -0500, Tom Cox wrote:
>
> Funny, BT expects the UK to get Internet just about everywhere, and BPL
> has nothing to do with it. Note the last paragraph, concerning rural
> penetration. (See below.)
>
> 73,
> Tom, KT9OM
>
>
>
> http://update.internetweek.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/egnM0GMYRQ0G4X0XU0AL
> UK To Get Near Universal Broadband Coverage By 2005
>
> By David Fiedler, InternetWeek
>
> BT announced Tuesday that it would be speeding up rollout of ADSL
> broadband availability in rural areas of the United Kingdom, and that
> coverage of 99.6 per cent of UK homes and businesses would be in place
> by next summer.
>
> Broadband has been implemented in the UK by an online registration
> scheme, whereby telephone exchanges were upgraded for ADSL based on the
> percentage of subscribers who had expressed interest.
>
> Almost a million requests had been processed up until now, but with the
> announcement, registration has been halted as no longer necessary.
>
> BT is looking into wireless and satellite service to cover the small
> rural exchanges that cannot be economically converted for ADSL broadband.
>
> [end]
>
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